From 44a42938d2a3199893416657a6fba376368cc93a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gustav Eek Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:47:07 +0200 Subject: [prsnts/common-goods] Presentation Fripost as a common -- Initail commit Initial commit of the presentation of Fripost and on Internet as a common good resource for FSCONS 2017. Draft of proposal, *proposal.mdwn*, and early draft of script, *script.mdwn, created. 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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. The capital constantly require right to increased profit, and +it constantly seeks new grounds + +\section*{Software as a Service} A concept introduced in the spirit of +centralisation is \textit{Software as a Service} (SaaS). SaaS means +that users perform their computer work on or through a network server +on the Internet or a local network. Examples of SaaS are Amazon Cloud +and Google Docs. One of the main problems with SaaS is that the users +has no control over their data. + +\section*{Privacy and Surveillance} +With large clientele comes a lot of power. Large transnational +operators, such as Google, are profiting from efficient use of privacy +invading schemes. Together with e.g.\ Google's email service one also +gets things that was probably \emph{not} asked for: advertisement, +semantic analysis of email contents, and spying. One part of Google's +marketing strategy is to sell the collected information to third +party. + + +We formed the association in 2010, seven years ago. Our chairman at +the time, Stefan Kangas poited out to me, what I did not quite +understand at the time, but what is becomming increasingly clear to +me. Fripost is part of a general resistance struggle (motståndskamp) +of global scale (mot griptången). This was in the early beginning of +the Arabic spring in Libya. + +(*Citer Mattei s. 64) + +The common good (gemensamt nyttiga) is something that is natural to +take as given, and it deserves to be. + +**More introduction ideas** + +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 +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). + +Of course we recognise that this process of privatisation and +enclosure (*att hägna in?*) is not isolated to Internet +infrastructure. The capital constantly require right to increased +profit, and it constantly seeks new grounds. However, the Internet and +digital technology an area where this process is very (*närvarande?*). +One of the later (*landvinningar*) is the right consumer data through +various privacy intrusive software as a service technologies (read +Google Drive). And of course state and inter state institutions +rather (*eldar på*) than (*stämmer*) the development. + +**Enclosure vs innovation** + +(*Continuation on "process of privatisation"*). Digital technology is +intricically intricacy and complicatied in its internals, though still +"friendly" in its usage. Therfore it can be dificult to distinguish +privitasation (*inhängnad*) from innovation. + +Side note. In my opinion, private innovation and development is +natural and of not at all problematic. Of course, however as a note to +the note, enclosing technology and restricting its usage (e.g. throung +proprietary software development) is highly non moral and should not +be accepted. + + +Fripost was founded in order to take back a small, but important, part +of our Internet life, namely the email communication +infrastructure. We gather around several servers that receive and +stores the members' email. The reliability of the service is of cause +of great importance. Therefore the network is arranged with +reliability in mind, and we hire a hosting service for the main +server. + + +We formed Fripost in 2010 in reaction to ... (*Fyll på med Google och +Facebook, etc*) ... + +Proper democracy. + +Democracy is about influence and power: the power to make decisions +and have them implemented. + +**Citizen Dialogues** + +Surveys in Sweden say that people show more interest in +society and politics than some years ago. Still trust and +participation in municipiatal parlamentary proceses and traditional +parties decay. + +As a response, the municipalities and regions in Sweden (SKL (*Vad?*)) +suggest so called citizen dialogues (*medborgardialoger*), usually in +connection with major infrastructure and city development projects, as +a way gather peoples opinion. This (*tilltag*) is Inspired by Sherry +Airnstein (*Kolla upp detta*) and planning research from the +1960'es. Her original ideas, however, had an equality idea +(*rättvisetanke?*. That idea of equality is totally lost in the way +these "dialoges" are committed: "Symbolic participation", Airnstein +would call it. Real participation require delegated power. (Thörn 2017) + +The common good (gemensamt nyttiga) is something that is natural to +take as given, and it deserves to be. + +**Compararison with other commons: Common intellect** + +I want to put the Internet (and all kinds of tele communication) +besides other common resources, such as (a) our soil, (b) sources of +water, (c) libraries and published knowledge, (d) and more. + +Idea (viewpoint) ... owned and managed by one single (*huvudman?*) +... historically speciffic. + +Common management (not quite managed) of water in rural India is +described by Vandana Shiva (*provide reference*). Privatisation and +"management" *caused* scarcity. + +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. + +Logic: if it is not scars it can not be managed, and what is not +managed can not yield profit. + +Compare owning with being (*äganda med varande*) (Engels). Another +mindset + +Ugo Mattei describes this mindset as a *common intellect*. + +(*Beskriv också utarmningarna av jordarna som beskrivs i "Den sista +skörden" (eller var det "Slutsködat"?). Exemplifiera också med +Fukuoka's senaste*) + +**Final** + +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. + -- cgit v1.2.3 From 449a32efbbbc79c25bfb57f0dc33e398f22d59a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gustav Eek Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:52:03 +0200 Subject: [prsnts/common-goods] Presentation common goods Some thoughts added to the script on moral and *economism*, *comunism* and *ecologism*. --- presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn') diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn index 2e67221..b7c3d3e 100644 --- a/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn +++ b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn @@ -157,6 +157,22 @@ Ugo Mattei describes this mindset as a *common intellect*. skörden" (eller var det "Slutsködat"?). Exemplifiera också med Fukuoka's senaste*) +Vandana Shiva, Fukuoka, med flera är alla ekologister. Ugo Mattei +lovordar ekologismen i *ekologism* vs. *ekonomism*. Jag antar att +tre-tuppeln, trikotonomin, ska vara *ekonomism* (privat, begränsad, +hantering), *kommunim* (gemensam hantering) *ekologism* (ingen +hantering eller hantering basserad på gemensamt intellekt). + +Föreslår att var och ens moral torde vara giltig liknelse för +gemensamt intellekt. Ekonomismen förutsätter ekonomisk rationalitet +och därmed avsaknad av moral. Kommunismen tillskriver solidaritet och +det gemensamma intresset som grund för moral. De två senare hamnar i +komplicerade förklaringsmodeller för individuellt moraliskt handlande +(*vilke exempel kan vi hitta*) och vill t.ex. förklara hipsters +blygsamhet i konsumtion som rationellt med livsstilsargumentet. Att +helt enkelt acceptera moral som giltig grund för konsumtionsbeslut +torde vara den enklaste modellen. Men bara ekologismen till en sådan. + **Final** I humbly recognise that what we do is small in scale and ambition. But -- cgit v1.2.3 From 8a2dc7946bc13f02fc7b9ba5ff02c08d99b8ceb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gustav Eek Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:16:50 +0200 Subject: [presentations/common-goods] Proposal as sent in to FSCONS The proposal is updated to its format it is sent in --- presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn') diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn index b7c3d3e..9fe1011 100644 --- a/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn +++ b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn @@ -61,9 +61,13 @@ 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). +I will start in a (well known) critique of Garret Hardin's classical +tragedy of the commons (*referens*) (one that has been presented many +times before). One example is Duoglad Hine, *What do you mean, "Full +Commonism"?* and *The Friendly Commoner*, FSCONS 2014. + +(*Read more on Duoglad Hine's talks*) + Of course we recognise that this process of privatisation and enclosure (*att hägna in?*) is not isolated to Internet -- cgit v1.2.3