Talk:Tyranny of the Commons

= Merge with Tragedy of the commons =

Consider a merge/redirect to the article, Tragedy of the commons

= Minor comments =

The characterization of the internet as an owned but uncontrolled "resource" is a bit misleading - as a whole, it's not controlled per se, but each individual page is controlled by its owner. This isn't simply another name for the tragedy of the commons, as the summary indicates, unless this is a mistake. If it's a mistake, this sort of area should be removed - unless we're going to consider the same problems for privately owned land. If it's not a mistake, then this whole perspective seems to be about the "problem" that no single agent or agency regulates the whole that is the Internet, and I think things could be better worded to that effect.

Irrelevant citation
Switft's Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome (1701, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), cited here as somehow relevant to "the tyranny of the commons" is completely irrelevant to the problem of the commons the article discusses, "the intractable dilemmas which ensue where something is owned by many people." Swift was writing about the balance of powers between king, nobles, and commons, as in the British House of Commons. His Discourse had nothing to do with property held in common. robbie 01:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)