This is the foreword to Internet Sovereignty, an essay collection and print pamphlet exploring the future of the internet. I am grateful to New_ Public who supported this series as a patron and whose head of editorial, Josh Kramer, wrote this foreword. For years now, people have been “quitting social media” for a number of familiar and understandable reasons. These range from hating the experience of these apps and websites to feeling like they are unbearably ethically compromised.