Wiki software shifts the economics of collaboration so that undoing damage is easier than doing it—'imagine it was easier to take spray paint off a brick wall than to put it on'—because radical transparency and full edit histories let any editor reset an article to its last known-good state in a couple of clicks, giving defenders a structural advantage that, for the first time on the internet, favors those who want to preserve value.

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Speaker

Clay Shirky

Evidence Quote

because it makes it so much easier to defend than attack the defenders have an advantage which is which is it's one of the first examples in the history of the internet where the defenders have an advantage

Source

Clay Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody 10/20/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:28:59 AM

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