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“Instead, the commons were as much a thing and an activity, both a noun and a verb—a set of social relationships, a bundle of rights and restrictions, a mode of being for mutual aid.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect. The companies that provide these and related services are quickly becoming the Disneys of the digital world—monoliths hungry for quarterly profits, answerable to their shareholders not us, their users, and more influential, more ubiquitous, and more insinuated into the fabric of our everyday lives than Mickey Mouse ever was. As such they pose a whole new set of challenges to the health of our culture.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“The rub is that over the intervening years we have somehow deceived ourselves into believing that this state of insecurity and inequity is a form of liberation.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“while piracy signifies “a repudiation of information capitalism at one extreme,” it marks information capitalism’s “consummation” on the other.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age