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Incredible to see mozilla steal the name of this obnoxious blog[1], which constantly gets to the HN frontpage[2]. I'll take this as an opportunity to express wh

Incredible to see mozilla steal the name of this obnoxious blog[1], which constantly gets to the HN frontpage[2]. I'll take this as an opportunity to express what has always bothered me about this line: To talk about "reclaiming" the net is to adopt the territorial language of revanchist movements, which does not make sense for networks. A website is not a territory. There's no need to "reclaim" what was never yours in the first place. You can make your own website. [1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/ https://reclaimthenet.org/ [2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reclaim+the+net&utm_source=opensearch&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=opensearch https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reclaim+the+net&utm_source=opensea...

Terr_ 3y ago
> To talk about "reclaiming" the net is to adopt the territorial language of revanchist movements, which does not make sense for networks. I don't think that's necessarily true, "reclaim" can easily be used to refer to restoring an overall state of affairs or social-norm, as opposed to involving legal ownership or control of some tangible asset. For example, consider the statement: "This holiday is too commercialized, we must reclaim Christmas." It would indeed be creepy-nonsense if that meant making Christmas® a trademark and all related paraphernalia copyrighted beneath a quasi-governmental entity tasked with its ideological purity... But that's probably not what someone means, they're calling for a broad cultural change.