While I was watching Battle for ideas, I was particularly struck by the second speaker and his statement regarding infrastructure vs. content on the Internet. He said something along the lines of, “Content is of the people and the infrastructure is the only contribution that corporations have to sites.” He used E-bay, Facebook, and designing one’s very own ‘unique’ pair of Nike Shoes or bag of M&Ms as evidence for this, arguing, in essence, that we are free to do what we want online and the protective umbrella of conglomerated ownership are just there to protect us.
Yeah, right.
