[p2p-research] [Commoning] The New Year’s Message of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do

[Michel Bauwens]

fran, could you present your initiatives in english to the p2p audience, for
publication in our ning and evenetually regular blog?

Michel

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:43 AM, fran ilich <ilich at sabotage.tv> wrote:

> hi neal,
>
> i completely agree with douglas rushkoff there.
>
> in 2005, a webhosting company that i will not name gave delete.tv the
> refund of a whole year of service, even though 6 months had already gone by,
> because some "anonymous" users didn't want to have their info hosted at the
> same company where the borderhack project was being hosted... of course, no
> one at the time believed us, as the idea was the internet was a place of
> freedom. so yea, being evicted lead to us start the possibleworlds.org and
> spacebank.org operation, but that's another story...
>
> yours,
>
> f.
>
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Neal Gorenflo wrote:
>
> > Thanks Michel for this inspiring message.  Coincidently, Douglas Rushkoff
> just posted an opinion piece on Shareable supporting the second point in
> your platform:
> >
> > The Next Net
> > http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net
> >
> > He basically says we lost the net long ago to corporations and that the
> only way to have a truly free net is to build one ourselves.  Giving our
> attention to Wikileaks and Net Neutrality are just distractions keeping us
> from what we need to do.
> >
> > It's a bold position, and I wonder if there's anyone on this list that
> actually knows how we can build our own?  I'm guessing it would have to use
> some of the existing infrastructure, but could have a different topology and
> governance system.  Feel free to share your ideas in comments of the post.
> >
> > Here's to forking the net!
> >
>
>


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