The Internet isn't just a digital printing press you own, dear editors, journalists, publishers. Why is it so hard for you to understand?
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On a medium with technically zero transaction cost, your old rules and laws fail. That's not piracy. That's the nature of the beast.
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True, although Facebook deserves all the bad publicity they can get on this one. But the label 'editor' is telling.
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See, both are wrong. But only being against both doesn't change anything. I want to fight FOR something. Not AGAINST.
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Seems in many ways like a crypto issue vis-a-vis blockchain. Facebook and Google control what they should merely distribute.
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When someone figures out or circumvents who watches the watchmen, we might get somewhere with this.
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E.g. Aftenposten is a partisan newspaper. The state is a censorship organ. Freedom of information is the missing link here.
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If arbiters like states, Facebook and newspapers weren't the ones responsible for verifying and filtering facts, we'd be golden.
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Issue isn't just centralisation but underlying tech fundamentals. Need better security to weaken centralized power. p2p, bc etc.
Politicians fighting crypto and newspapers fighting Silly Valley are the powers that be fighting the powers that are becoming.
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Ultimately IMHO it is about us looking up instead of left and right to our fellow citizens to make a change.
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Indeed. My main issue is I don't know how to code. Working on it, but I'm behind the times. :P Real work is in secure info imo.
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building such same-level tools is not what VC likes. And crowdfunding also doesn't help. So it is up to Open. Takes time. I know
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Regardless of who does it, we will need sufficiently Cool Tech. I expect this is where good change will come, if at all.
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