Editing Tragedy of the commons (section)

==== Pollution ====

In terms of pollution, there are some scholars who look only at the pollution that occurs in the digital environment itself.<ref>{{Citation|last=Weis|first=Judith S.|title=Introduction to the Marine Environment and Pollution|date=2015-01-08|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199996698.003.0001|work=Marine Pollution|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/wentk/9780199996698.003.0001|isbn=978-0-19-999669-8|access-date=2021-05-24}}</ref> They argue that unrestricted use of digital resources can cause an overproduction of redundant data which causes noise and corrupts communication channels within the digital environment.<ref name="Greco-2004" /> Others argue that the pollution caused by the overuse of digital resources also causes pollution in the physical environment.<ref>{{Citation|title=Does pollution overrun anti-pollution?: Pollution efficiency and environmental management in Bangladesh|date=2015-11-17|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b19079-26|work=Water Resources and Environment|pages=147–150|publisher=CRC Press|doi=10.1201/b19079-26|isbn=978-0-429-22563-5|access-date=2021-05-24}}</ref> They argue that unrestricted use of digital resources causes misinformation, fake news, crime, and terrorism, as well as problems of a different nature such as confusion, manipulation, insecurity, and loss of confidence.<ref>{{Citation|title=Fake News Fingerprints|date=2020|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11807.003.0019|work=Fake News|publisher=The MIT Press|doi=10.7551/mitpress/11807.003.0019|isbn=978-0-262-35738-8|s2cid=241063966|access-date=2021-05-24 |last1=Faltesek |first1=Dan |pages=165–178 }}</ref><ref name="Almeida-2020">{{Cite journal|last1=Almeida|first1=Virgilio|last2=Filgueiras|first2=Fernando|last3=Gaetani|first3=Francisco|last4=Almeida|first4=Virgilio|date=2020-07-01|title=Digital Governance and the Tragedy of the Commons|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9195909|journal=IEEE Internet Computing|volume=24|issue=4|pages=41–46|doi=10.1109/MIC.2020.2979639|s2cid=221845343|issn=1089-7801}}</ref>