Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network Protocols Enable Digital Commons & Open Marrkets

About this episode

Evan Henshaw-Plath discusses the importance of network protocols in supporting digital commons and open markets.

Evan Henshaw-Plath, better known as Rabble, is a pioneering programmer for social media platforms and decentralized technologies. Here, Rabble explains how network protocols are critical infrastructure for enabling -- or impeding -- commons and open markets, not to mention privacy, free speech, and community control. Their ambition is a future in which everyone has "access to authentic, private online communities built on care, connection, and sustainable relationships.” [More on commons at www.Bollier.org.] For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org.

People in this episode

Host: David Bollier

Guest: Evan Henshaw-Plath

Topics covered

• digital commons
• network protocols
• open markets
• privacy
• free speech
• community control

Keywords

• network protocols
• digital commons
• open markets
• privacy
• free speech
• community control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, www.Bollier.org, Bollier

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