Disclosure: The video is produced by Steve Anderson, whose COA News is a client of Agaric Design Collective.

Some surprising background on the current extent of concentration and tracking supplements the video.

Ironically, it comes off a little like an ad for the FreeSpeech.org community, but I strongly agree with the premise of online spaces under the control of regular folks, meaning notably open source free software and not legally owned by corporate stockholders.

I would go farther and say that anything with network effects - the more people who use it, the more valuable it is (see Microsoft Office, MySpace) - must be open in key ways and ideally under some sort of (genuine not government) democratic control. And we who care about this have a responsibility and an opportunity to help make an awesome aggregator under these auspices.

That's not in the FreeSpeechTV project, as far as I know, but I'm glad to see them step up to help people claim our web.