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

Podcast: Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
Published: Aug 1, 2025
Duration seconds: 3462
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Summary

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.