Implicit Feudalism

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""Implicit Feudalism": a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities' democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance."

- Nathan Schneider [1]

More information

* Book: Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life. by Nathan Schneider. University of California Press, 2023

URL = https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393943/governable-spaces