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The private commons I'm most concerned with are actually digital commons: sites like twitter, reddit, and facebook. They have and enforce speech codes and other
by humanrebar 9y ago
The private commons I'm most concerned with are actually digital commons: sites like twitter, reddit, and facebook. They have and enforce speech codes and otherwise curate and filter the content.
In this way, a park or two that you can't have a picnic in isn't all that alarming to me. Town squares used to be partially about places for bottom-up speech and marketing. In that world, silencing the riff-raff in squares had serious social consequences. These days, much of it seems digital.
- kome 9y agovery very good point.
- jancsika 9y agoThat's a bit like saying you're less concerned about being waste-deep in a tarpit and more concerned about the prospect of your arms getting stuck. The analogy is especially apt because if you think of web/net commons actually replaces free physical assembly (rather than augmenting it), then you can be convinced to give up your freedom of web/net assembly when whatever next new digital shift comes along. (E.g., not terribly concerned about my arms stuck in the tarpit because my head is connected directly to the VR meshnet...) edit: clarification another edit: typo