Dear SIGCISers, As scholars once designed email and mailing lists for their communication needs as open protocols and are now surrendering their computer-mediated communication tools to proprietary platforms 40 years later, I thought the piece I just wrote on that matter would be of in interest on this list. I argue that the "absurdist" situation according to one of the academics involved in the "Zoom censorship" turmoil is a direct consequence of this giving away. My piece in The Conversation was first in French on focused on how the Renater national infrastructure gave up on offering open videoconferencing services to French academics during the pandemic online panic. The English version rather builds on the "Zoom censorship" event that sparked outrage in the academic community as a very good example of the issues at stake. https://theconversation.com/debate-is-open-scholarship-even-possible-with-zo... Articles in The Conversation are published under a CC-BY-ND license, so any media outlet interested in republishing is very welcome. Ads usual, apologies for cross posting, -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexandre-hocquet https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************