Truly public spaces are not for sale
Paul Keller,
Open Future,
May 03, 2022
This is an opinion article by Paul Keller and you can see where it is headed from the title. "If Musks' attempt to buy Twitter should teach us one thing it is that democratic societies must invest into truly public spaces that are not subject to centralised ownership." The key question for us in this argument is as follows: ought we to consider schools as analagous to the public square? I always think of Rousseau in this context, who argues that if we are government by a wealthy minority, this minority will act to serve its own intrerests, at the expense of society at large. Keller argues "We need a new type of public institution that distributes the provision of interoperable public spaces across a wide spectrum of public institutions, civic initiatives and ultimately gives their contributors a stake in their governance." Does this, though, give us the governance we seek?
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