The history of Usenet should be required reading for anyone making the public spaces argument. Usenet was a non-corporate, distributed, unmoderated public space. It ate itself.
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Some groups were moderated.
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Also some groups where in languages with few people speaking it. Those where generally nice.
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Then it became mainly used for porn and crackz, and censorship began (if only because of bandwidth/storage requirements).
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from Saint-Mandé, France
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