null@TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons This is absolutely right, and I likened it yesterday afternoon (also in convo with Jeromey on this topic) to if I dropped a hot, 1890s-style, pamphlet at my university. No guarantee a copy would survive unless I personally preserved it. But we don't have a way to guarantee preservation on the web. Things change, servers become obsolete or dilapidated, tech changes and updates. How can I possibly keep a thing I cannot hold in my private collection? Even I, the owner and creator of such a thing, do not have the promise of permanent access to it via the web -- similar to owning home videos on VHS or something something.
@krisnelson@micah @TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons And this problem also touches on what—in US copyright law at least, I'm not sure if its the same terminology internationally—is known as the "first-sale doctrine" (if you buy a physical thing, you can always do what you want with that individual physical thing). This breaks down, much as you describe, when everything becomes licensing, leasing, rents, and contracts, which do not have such a right (unless it's in the contract).
@krisnelson @TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons our desire to keep the government out of the internet has turned it into fiefdoms. Look at us migrating here as an example of how this plays out.
@micah @TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons More that fiefdoms exactly, I'm reminded of the enclosure of the commons in Britain. Has anyone tried to compare/contrast that what EM is doing with Twitter and what migrations and changes each engendered?
@krisnelson @TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons not that I know of but I'm here for any #histodons who wants to work out that comparison. It isn't just the idea that we are forced migrants, it is that there is nowhere unowned. No space that isn't already sovereign for us to exist.
@krisnelson @TreyBastian @JeromeySims @histodons it really is a difficult balance between tech freedom as a value and ditching the Robber Barron hellscape that we're talking about. The more we yell about net neutrality to protect from ISPs (also Robber Barrons), the more we create feudal holdings for people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. We can't get out of this cycle without a new way of thinking.