We are seeing the #Enclosures of the #Internet #Commons.

Just as the free #airwaves were #regulated, corporatized, and oligopolized in the 1930's, now we see this #centralization and #capitalization of the internet.

See:

#Television: a struggle for #power

by #Waldrop, Frank C; #Borkin, Joseph, joint author
1938

https://archive.org/details/televisionstrugg00waldrich

#InternetArchive

@jamie

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Bibliography: p. 277-281

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