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Visiting my birthplace, the island of Gotland, Sweden, made me think a lot about the freedom to roam.

This is a law from the 1940s (ish) allowing anyone and everyone to roam freely in nature, even across private land.

This law also exists in Norway, but coming home to this amazing island with all it's diversity and long sand beaches, with a lot of tourism, hotels and hostels, nationals parks and world heritage sites, it becomes very clear what this law is actually for.

It was intended to give people something to do when people in general got increased rights to free time. Somewhere to go, to see the night sky, to experience wild oceans and tranquil orchids. Somewhere for the kids to run around and get bruises and stung by bees. Places to make memories. Places to make the life we work so hard to live worth living.

I made me think: why don't we have digital freedom to roam-laws? The right to roam anonymously, at no cost, as we wish (as long as we don't destroy or pollute).

Why is there not a law saying public and private “land” online must be open to the public to pass by and hang out in?

This is not only my dream, but the original idea of the original internet. The internet before it was taken over by USA-style “capitalism” (which in reality is monopolistic, plutocratic and anti-capitalistic).

Protocols should have freedom to roam. People should, whoever they are, be free to roam the protocols, as long as they don't break fundamental laws (derivative USA-style laws like “§69. It's illegal to say negative words about Elon Musk” don't apply. I mean real laws.)

Cool idea, right? People being able to use the earth, physically and digitally, istead of being under the claws of the western oligarchy?

//Aron

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