Underpinning our vast and simple-seeming digital networks are technologies that, if they hadn’t already been invented, probably wouldn’t unfold the same way again. The internet’s distinct architecture arose from a distinct constraint and a distinct freedom. The internet was a recipe for mortar, with an invitation for anyone, and everyone, to bring their own bricks. However, today, the internet has been plagued with misinformation, conspiracies, hate speech, anonymity, an overload of content, and…