diff --git a/posts/drafts/identity-protocol-design.md b/posts/drafts/identity-protocol-design.md index 9fdffc8..06bcbbb 100644 --- a/posts/drafts/identity-protocol-design.md +++ b/posts/drafts/identity-protocol-design.md @@ -16,10 +16,18 @@ ### The Captured Internet -Every part of the modern internet is structured to extract profit and enforce control. What began as a decentralized network ran nerds and enthusiasts has been enclosed by capital, colonized by the state and transformed into infrastructure that serves accumulation and domination rather than fostering human connection and improving your life. +Every time I want to interact with the modern internet in a way that respects my independence to make choices for my own hardware and how I want to interact with people I feel like I am always trying to fight for control. Almost every part of how the modern internet is structured designed specific to extract profit and enforce state and capitalist control. This structure while terrible for the users and building community is not terribly surprising given the context that modern computing was built under. + +TODO: talk about how ownership and commodification of connection is the issue. To be able to have control over your digital life you need to have some way of telling people "this is who I am and this is how you find me". Traditionally for users this has been phone numbers, and usernames. Within the realm of hosting a service for others to access it is IP addresses, and Domain names. All of these things have some form of artificial sacristy applied to them and in most cases some layer of ownership and property added to them. +TODO: talk about ownership of hardware from data connections to the compute is an issue. + +TODO: talk about the need to connect though existing protocols + +TODO: summarize what we need out of a protocol + ### How State and Capital Prevent Autonomous Community These structures are not neutral infrastructure - they constitute a hegemonic order[^gramsci-hegemony] that actively prevents communities from organizing outside market and state control: