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+title: Demokratisk kommuicationsinfrastruktur som motståndsform
+subtitle: Technology infrastructure as a common googd
+author: Gustav Eek <gustav@fripost.org>
+date: tor 13 jul 2017 20:18:26 CEST
+...
+
+Proposal to FSCONS 2017
+
+# Abstract
+
+In this lecture I will present the democratic principles of Fripost
+and demonstrate how also complicated resources, such as infrastructure
+for electronic communication can (and must) (*underställas folkligt
+demokratiska pricesser?*) (I argue that central communication
+infrastructure should be viewed as a resource).
+
+I will start in a (well known) critique of Garret Hardin's (*Vem
+talade om detta FSCONS 2015?*) classical tragedy of the commons
+(*referens*) (one that has been presented many times before).
+
+# Description
+
+The importance of Internet as communication medium can not be
+questioned. For those who take user freedom seriously it is saddening
+to see how the Internet has changed from being a common and highly
+distributed network to the increasingly privatised web we encounter
+today.
+
+In this lecture I will present the democratic principles of Fripost,
+the free email association which was founded as a reaction to that
+development. I will demonstrate how also complicated resources, such
+as infrastructure for electronic communication can (and must)
+(*underställas folkligt demokratiska pricesser?*).
+
+Fripost and its foundataion and principals has been presented several
+times since its constitution in 2010, also at FSCONS. This
+presentation, however, takes a different and broader stand.
+
+I will start in a (common) critique of Garret Hardin's (*Vem talade om
+detta FSCONS 2015?*) classical tragedy of the commons (*referens*)
+(one that has been presented many times before). The fault lies in the
+dikotonomy *public-private* and in the idea that every resource needs
+an owning (*huvudmann?*). What is not managed can not yield profit. In
+the case of the (*inhängdad?*) of the commons, management in it self
+causes the scarcity, it is not the scarcity that requires management.
+
+It is not obvious, however, how digital technology and technology
+based on Internet can be recognised as a resource and common
+good. Though "friendly" in its usage, it is intrinsically intricate
+and complicated in its internals, and the distance is far between the
+providing and consuming ends.
+
+Here Fripost becomes an example of central communication
+infrastructure that implements democratic "ownership", maintenance,
+and development. And democracy is equal influence: it does not stop at
+gathering of opinion.
+
+Equal influence is ambitious, and how it is interpreted in Fripost
+will be discussed in its details, but in short the key is that
+Fripost's commitment (*åtagande?*) is equally much social as it is
+technical: all decisions originates from the members, short term as
+well as strategical; activities are balanced between the association's
+three legs: (a) technology, (b) adult education, and (c) propaganda;
+and sustainability is the leading word.
+
+I humbly recognise that what we do is small in scale and ambition. But
+I still want to put it in the context of important local struggles
+that with global implication. In the world, farmers fight for land,
+urban folks for water, and students for independent universities. We
+fight for the right and free access to Internet and the means for
+communication. Internet is designed to be distributed and for equal
+unlimited access for everyone. That sounds quite much like a common
+good, and commons require equal influence.
+
+The moral of the presentation is of course that we should fight back
+against the privatisation process, particularly that of the
+web. Fripost illustrates that it is possible and also suggest how it
+can be done.