When I started working with the internet in 1995, it truly did feel like a commons. You were free to put up your own site, on your own server, whether your purp

When I started working with the internet in 1995, it truly did feel like a commons. You were free to put up your own site, on your own server, whether your purpose was business, art, or simply being there. This glorious phase of freedom unfortunately did not even last the 150 years that Hickel examined between the plague and the capitalist acceleration of the European enclosure movement, but rather a brief 15 or so. I'm having a really, really hard time getting past this paragraph. In what way am I not free to put up my own site, on my own server? I have literally done that, many times.