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 Wednesday, May 30, 2007
started 5/31/2007; 11:28:21 AM - last post 5/31/2007; 5:27:08 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, May 30, 2007 
5/31/2007; 3:28:21 PM (reads: 4590, responses: 1)
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DIY freedom 
| | The norm of free culture has, until recently, and except within totalitarian nations, been broadly exploited and quite universal. |
| | Free cultures are cultures that leave a great deal open for others to build upon; unfree, or permission, cultures leave much less. Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so. |
| | Now, aside from that sad trend, and aside from the good work being done by many to create and expand the body of free (as in speech) creative works, exposed here is the need to recognize the infrastructural nature of freedom itself. |
| | Freedom has leverage. Freedom can have huge because effects. That is, large effects happen because of it. |
| | There's a pony in here somewhere. Maybe a herd of them. But I'm listening too closely to what some other people are saying in the room where I'm sitting right now, so it'll have to wait. |
| | Where I'm sitting now, by the way, is among Berkman brethren, where word has just been spilled that Yochai Benkler will be coming here. (What he'll be doing at Berkman, and at Harvard, are not apparent yet; but I'm sure it'll be good.) |
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Mike Warot - Re: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
5/31/2007; 9:27:08 PM (reads: 991, responses: 0)
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What's needed is a free infrastructure... some way to post something, and make sure it stays available, regardless of censorship or hardware failure.
For example, if I wanted to put a video on the net, I might choose YouTube, or a commercial ISP, or even my own box at home with a commercial ISP connection. However, no matter what the choice, I can still be censored because commercial concerns OWN the internet. It's very disquieting to see just how easy it is to force an ISP to drop the connection to a given host, or to remove its contents.
A transparent, persistent data cloud which just keeps stuff, without regard to source, is necessary. However, the current political climate won't allow it... as some verboten content might be stored in such a cloud.
The merit of a distributed storage cloud will eventually make itself known to the world, it's just going to take far longer in our current climate of fear.
--Mike--
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