Stephen Downes

Readers see this argument a lot on OLDaily and here it is again: resilient media is decentralized, a complex network of sites connected by protocol and not owned and managed by any individual or institution. "The Web is a commons, guaranteed by its protocol. I can build and manage a website and publish it to the world... I don't need permission to publish, you don't need permission to read, and there's nothing billionaires or governments can do about it because they can't get between us." That's not completely true, of course - they can interfere with open networks, but it's a lot harder when media is decentralized. The original version of this article is here, on the massive wiki. See also: The Blacksky path towards resilient social media (wiki version).