TAZHakim Bey
TAZ
by Hakim Bey · first published 2003
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…reason people started to offer money to display ads banner on websites but asked for at least a way to count and track clicks on those banners and It's been all downhill from there. For those who read TAZ by Hakim Bey he put the end of the potential of the web to put the people in power around 1996 when ads came to the web and turned it into a surveillance tool.
on “Nonplussed” ↗…becoming commercial would ultimately destroy the democratic potential of the internet to mirror the issues of capitalism such as centralizing power and wealth. In 2003 (was it 2001?) there's the 2nd edition TAZ preface by Hakim Bey[3], in 2007 there's this infamous talk "free internet or minitel 2.0"[1] at the Libre Software Meeting[2]. Closer to now there's RIPE publishing "The death of transit"[3] and recently…
on “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet” ↗…government philosophically rules out a bureaucratic governance. In particular his position is interesting in contrast to others in the anti-authoritarian Marxist tradition. I hadn't heard of Hakim Bey or TAZ, so thanks for pointing that out to me.
on “Python gets a new governance model” ↗I'm not sure, but the grand-parent might be drawing from Hakim Bey's distinction between Net and Web. This is from TAZ, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1991): We’ve spoken of the Net, which can be defined as the totality of all information and communication transfer. Some of these transfers are privileged and limited…
on “Strange.website” ↗…essentially had a military use. Volunteering to give otherwise unattainable level of detail about a potential future war zone, is not right. Some details should be kept away from maps. That's what I read in TAZ by Hakim Bey
on “Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap” ↗