Well, it started as elite platform (one needed computer, modem, access,
time, IQ), unregulated, then it was commercialized, commoditized, masses
came in, and finally it got heavily regulated. Compare with European
conquest of North America. Looks like 'space'.
On 2/9/16, 11:05, Florian Cramer wrote:
What is needed, above all, is a thorough critique and abandonment of
the colonialist trope of "cyberspace".
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