On October 2nd I gave a talk at the Cybersalon event ‘Reclaim the Net‘ and had an excellent time.

There’s a video.

There was an audience, including Christian Payne and Richard Barbrook.

I had some notes to speak from.

And I used a talk I’d given at the ICA back in 2002 as inspiration – Is Big Business Killing the Net?, the New Media Knowledge Christmas Lecture, 9 December 2002 began:

Duh!  Of course it is – at least, it’s killing one way of building a public network, the one that is inherent in the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, the one I grew up with. The one I value.