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There are many projects that have created protocols for decentralizing discourse, including ActivityPub and SSB for social, Matrix and IRC for chat, and RSS for blogging. While each of these are successful in their own right, none of them fully met the goals we had for a network that enables global long-term public conversations at scale.

Jay Graber • A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol

Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up... See more

Cindy Cohn • John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018

What’s amazing is that the difficulty of creating this situation of “fully democratized information” is entirely economic rather than technological. What I describe with books is close to what Google Books and Amazon already have. But of course, universal free access to full content horrifies publishers, so we are prohibited from using these system... See more

Nathan Robinson • The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

Regulate the Web: Free expression, harmful speech, and the Future of the Internet

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Internet est un bien commun. Rien ne doit disparaître ni être récupéré. Sa Wayback Machine consigne le temps numérique. Lui-même ressemble au scientifique allumé du film Retour vers le futur. Ensemble, Aaron et Brewster entreprennent de numériser toutes les publications de l’humanité pour les laisser en accès libre. C’est l’Open Library, la bibliot

Flore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)

The early days of the World Wide Web, which now bears the retronym Web 1.0, gave us a promise of a decentralized and democratized way of sharing information. Web 1.0 was truly revolutionary; it stood in stark contrast to any other information sharing mechanism in all of human history. The idea was simple: people who held information could make that... See more

Emily Gorcenski • The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 · EmilyGorcenski.com

It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational.

Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)

The media can free itself from the forces that arouse its self-destructive impulses. Some of the tools are already in our hands—antitrust laws to break up tech monopolies. Other tools would change the structure of the game—for example, regulations to classify digital platforms as publishers, with the resulting responsibilities and liabilities. Tech