Over the past thirty years, technology has transformed the way we live. It’s made it possible to have face-to-face conversations with people from around the world. It’s given us the ability to create content and instantly publish it to a global audience. Geographical limitations have practically vanished.

But all of these things have come with a cost. Our ability to do all these things has been centralized in the hands of a few corporations. And that centralized control puts users’ personal privacy and sovereignty at risk.