Comment by port11
20 hours ago
The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.
20 hours ago
The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.
Its pretty explicitly not a tragedy of the commons. Its a tragedy of the ruling class abusing the resources of the 'commons' to extract value. There is nothing 'commons' about trillion dollar companies extracting all available value from the labor of the working class. That's just the tragedy that'll bring around the death of society, the same tragedy that brings all other tragedys
The commons in question is the internet itself.
Thank you for describing the tragedy of the commons
The commons were never unregulated. This is a tragedy of enclosure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
tragedy of the commons with your ideological buzzwords sprinkled in, truly innovative
There’s definitely lots of problems with the ruling class and wealth disparity. Perhaps the defining problems of our current age.
That being said, so many of the plebs suck. Like 2% will ruin everything for everyone.
While a lot of the plebs do suck, a pleb who sucks causes way less problems than a big corp that sucks simply by virtue of not having too much resources.
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> its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable
It's rarely been the citizens that have been the problem, but the governments and companies that seek the use the network connection for their overwhelming benefit.
Re (above):
> Not on topic, but wow the internet has very quickly devolved into: click -> "making sure you're not a bot", click -> "making sure you're a human", click -> "COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES", click -> "cloudflare something something"
wat. The protections in place that the OP is talking about are almost entirely due to (not government and company) bad actors.
No, it is because citizen allow treating them like this.