#digitalenclosures — Public Fediverse posts

#digitalEnclosures : "The things that should have been held as #commons — #identity, the #socialgraph, group memberships, #collectivememory, trust relationships — had no #protocollayer to hold them. The platforms of the early 2000s emerged into that gap and enclosed them. Each one drew a fence around the part of our social life it mediated and claimed property rights to what was inside. The fences went up because there was nothing to stop them." @Identitywoman

#digitalEnclosures : "The things that should have been held as #commons — #identity, the #socialgraph, group memberships, #collectivememory, trust relationships — had no #protocollayer to hold them. The platforms of the early 2000s emerged into that gap and enclosed them. Each one drew a fence around the part of our social life it mediated and claimed property rights to what was inside. The fences went up because there was nothing to stop them." @Identitywoman

#digitalEnclosures : "The things that should have been held as #commons — #identity, the #socialgraph, group memberships, #collectivememory, trust relationships — had no #protocollayer to hold them. The platforms of the early 2000s emerged into that gap and enclosed them. Each one drew a fence around the part of our social life it mediated and claimed property rights to what was inside. The fences went up because there was nothing to stop them." @Identitywoman

#digitalEnclosures : "The things that should have been held as #commons — #identity, the #socialgraph, group memberships, #collectivememory, trust relationships — had no #protocollayer to hold them. The platforms of the early 2000s emerged into that gap and enclosed them. Each one drew a fence around the part of our social life it mediated and claimed property rights to what was inside. The fences went up because there was nothing to stop them." @Identitywoman

#digitalEnclosures : "The things that should have been held as #commons — #identity, the #socialgraph, group memberships, #collectivememory, trust relationships — had no #protocollayer to hold them. The platforms of the early 2000s emerged into that gap and enclosed them. Each one drew a fence around the part of our social life it mediated and claimed property rights to what was inside. The fences went up because there was nothing to stop them." @Identitywoman

These capitalist platforms are fundamentally the same. The cycle will continue unless we look back to a bygone era of the internet that was once not owned by a few mega-corporations. Where the #DigitalCommons flourished, and #DigitalEnclosures weren’t so prevalent. (3/4)