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A New Social Contract
Foundations of 'Social Rights' in a Scale-Free World
I am writing a new series at CMSWire called Social Contract, exploring the themes of our ‘social rights’ in social space online
The collapse of privacy in a world of publicy We have moved past the escape velocity into an era where the conventional notions of privacy are torn away. We are trapped by the cold paradox of the web. To connect, to follow, to post: all of these gestures leave a trail, all of these are signals of our intentions, our ambitions, our cravings. We must act in a world of many publics, and those increasingly are owned by corporations whose interests are not ours. In a time of wholesale publicy, privacy may become unaffordable, and secrecy unattainable.
We are at a time of great contradiction Social is about bottom-up creation of social relations, but the organizations that are administering the "open web" are operated in a top-down and closed fashion, so that the shared space we seem to be sharing online is actually not our commons but the assets of publicly-traded corporations. We need a new social contract, one that establishes the rights of the individual in a world dominated by gigantic corporations. We cannot be bounded by the terms of service we are coerced into signing in order to have access to a digital life in the modern world. In the next months, I will explore the principles and particulars of our new digital world, and the lineaments of a better social contract between us and the landlords who own our online landscape.
The collapse of privacy in a world of publicy We have moved past the escape velocity into an era where the conventional notions of privacy are torn away. We are trapped by the cold paradox of the web. To connect, to follow, to post: all of these gestures leave a trail, all of these are signals of our intentions, our ambitions, our cravings. We must act in a world of many publics, and those increasingly are owned by corporations whose interests are not ours. In a time of wholesale publicy, privacy may become unaffordable, and secrecy unattainable.