David Wiley's comments from yesterday notwithstanding, there are still some important things to take away from the Doc Searls article, and specifically, as Ton Zijlstra notes, the ways the commons - or the public goods - are being enclosed, that is, essentially converted from public to private ownership. Points of enclosure include service provisioning, 5G, censorship, the advertising-supported commercial Internet, protectionism, digital colonialism, our forgotten past, and algorithmic opacity. Now this is a mélange of issues including some from a free-wheeling libertarian perspective, but the danger, I think, is real. Yesterday I said that OER don't need regulation, and that's true. But they need protection, as do all our other public goods, because it's too easy to destroy them.
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