The internet is increasingly becoming an institutional web, with coordinated auth across systems ... but no answer to the Q: By what authority does this action occur? Identity systems solved authentication. They rarely solved legitimacy. New essay:

Gareth Farry — Law, Culture & Technology

The Institutional Web – Coordination, legitimacy, and the next layer of the internet

For most of its existence, the internet has been understood primarily as an information network. Websites published information, just as platforms ...