before web 2.0 a few more technically savvy people had freedom as defined by the FSF, with Web 2.0 a quantum jump in the number of people have relative freedom, using proprietary platforms ...
Millions more people are able to express themselves, produce media, organize political and social groups and participate in open design communities ... freedoms that were much more limited before Web 2.0 ... that this increased participation is partly controlled by platforms and their designs doesn't make them un-real .. that doesn't mean we don't have to fight for more freedom and against proprietary limits, but we should acknowledge social advances where they occur, A few people will feel that freedom was lost, but for the masses, their impression will be the exact opposite, Michel On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Wes Felter <wes...@felter.org> wrote: > On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Mike Danko wrote: > > > Where does the quest for autonomous thought end? When do we declare > > true > > freedom exists? > > I use a "high water mark" model for such questions. Before Web 2.0, > many people had more computing freedom than they have now; Autonomo.us > aims to restore the freedom that was lost. It is more difficult to > reason about areas like social networking and microblogging, where > freedom didn't exist initially. > > Wes Felter - wes...@felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.autonomo.us > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Working at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI Volunteering at the P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net - http://p2pfoundation.ning.com Monitor updates at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens The work of the P2P Foundation is supported by SHIFTN, http://www.shiftn.com/
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