Saving the web from itself: Solidarity never more important

Imagine if Apple, Google, or Microsoft, or any of those new imperialists who make Cecil Rhodes seem an avuncular philanthropist, offered to build a vast “gathering space” — a shop — in Cork’s Bishop Lucey Park, Galway’s Eyre Square, or, say, Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green.

There would, of course, be opposition but would that opposition prevail? Can we be sure that heritage and our social confidence would block an advancing Silicon Valley?