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so if I'm reading the literature right in the 2000s people theorizing the concept of the "digital commons" kind of conflated common-pool resource sharing with like, free speech zones?? those are very different commonses, folks
@ingrid I remember the common pool resource stuff being about open source software, not about content moderation
@bob yeah I think where the wires get crossed is the "freedom"/"openness" rhetoric emphasizing individual agency in distributed networks? It's confusing
They presumed that the commons wouldn't become monitized. The privatization through corporatization wasn't factored in.
Their naivety was a result of their academic isolation. The corporatists ran rampant as a result of their ethical isolation.
(I am reading Hess and Ostrom in 2007 on knowledge commons fwiw, they focus on common pool but cite Benkler on the free speech-y framing)