Frank McCourt, real estate and sports executive, is trying to buy the U.S. side of TikTok. His goal is not to run a social media company but to use TikTok’s massive user base to speed the launch of what he calls an “alternative internet.”
McCourt believes the internet is broken. He describes it as exploitative, surveillance-based and harmful. He wants an internet that empowers people, protects children and improves public life.
“We are building an alternative internet to the one that we have now, which we’ve concluded is broken, it’s exploitive and predatory and surveillance based,” he said. “We should have an internet that, instead of exploiting, empowers. We deserve an internet that actually protects kids, that empowers individuals and makes us all smarter, not dumber.”
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