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Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)
by ethbr0 5y ago
Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)
- maccolgan 5y agoHow is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?
- jayshua 5y agoPretty sure that's socialism. Communism is envisioned as a stateless society. Which is kind of what the internet is. There's standards bodies, but they don't really have any enforcement power. And ICANN, one of the few bodies with actual power, (by controlling domain name distribution) leads to problems like in this article.
- dgb23 5y ago> Pretty sure that's socialism. State socialism specifically.
- ethbr0 5y agoAnarcho-communism, not Marxism–Leninism.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoState ownership is merely one interpretation of the base communist concept of communal ownership. The internet is largely run on protocols built organically by the people using them and only later codified into standards by a committee of interested parties.
- Zababa 5y ago> Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. Could you expand on that? People tend to use widely different definitions of "communism" so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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