Patrolled
"Mainstream political democracies restrict the choices (candidates or products) available and level the types of interpretation (or voting) to the lowest common denominator, especially to a yes-or-no question, in order to reach the largest number of participants." (Saper, "Networked Art" Preface XIII).
All of our choices everywhere at anytime are patrolled by everyone and by no one. Even concerning the viewing of art, reductions in variety remain pervasive. Whether for purposes of population control or for political and corporate profit, a sort of police like presence exists on the internet and seems more prevalent with every growth of the web. Perhaps the thought of freedom seems worrying to those in authority who concern themselves with data matters, or perhaps the internet simply cannot withstand total, unbridled expansion. Regardless, limitations on choice have metastasized across all the naked cyberspace. The ability to research information and the liberty to experience any online activity realistically occurs within a sort of sandbox of predetermined borders, partially because of the original limitations of internet architecture and partially because of the security surrounding data consumption. Grey matter...
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