Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data (Distribution Matters)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Cloud Policy: Genealogy of a Regulatory Crisis
	Designing the Cloud
	Visualizing the Cloud
	The Path Dependencies of Cloud Policy
	The Stakes of Cloud Policy
1. Pipelines
	Pipeline Principles
	AT&T and the Blueprint for Cloud Policy
	Cloud Policy for the Convergent Era
	The Information Superhighway and Beyond: Digital Pipelines
	Pipeline Principles Revisited
2. Platforms
	Cloud Royalty
	Platform Governance
	The Survival of News
	Alternative Visions
3. Data
	(Im)materiality and (In)visibility
	Locating Control
	“The Abyss from Which There Is No Return”
	Private Control/Public Data
	Data Sovereignty, Data Localization, and National Clouds
Epilogue: Preserving the Cloud’s Future
	Activism and the Way Forward
	Creative Solutions
	We Could Have Been a Contender . . .
Appendix: Notable Investigations and Actions Against Big Tech, 2017–June 2023
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Epilogue
Bibliography
Index