We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

The Enclosure Acts allowed fencing of common lands that villagers had used for generations. Something similar has happened in the digital space.

Between the middle of the 18th and 19th centuries, the English parliament passed more than 4,000 Enclosure Acts. These laws allowed the fencing of common lands where villagers had grazed livestock an… [+6110 chars]

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