Boston billionaire Frank McCourt thinks the internet is broken. He goes so far as to say the way we use the internet today robs us of"our humanity" and"our personhood."
to require the app's Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, to sell TikTok to an American subsidiary or face a ban in the U.S. The legislation is currently facing legal challenges.to talk about his mission, his Boston roots and his recent book,"Our Biggest Fight."What I'm trying to do is to get people to see, to see their data as not some abstract concept, something that in this digital era as, as their personhood.
"You need to design safety and trust into systems and into infrastructure before you build it, not after you've connected billions of people. ... We've moved fast and now we're breaking things. And we can do better. We must do better. And so it just can't be emphasized enough. ... We can fix this and the key thing we need to do is re-empower people and return the control and the ownership of the data.