Access control

The unilateral restriction or blocking of access to information, services, or communication by gatekeepers.

Examples: paying for basic functionality, shadowbanning, app store rules, geo-blocking.

Offline, this would amount to a guard deciding which shops you are allowed to enter.

See also → Gatekeepers · Censorship · Thesis 3


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