We have our priorities wrong: sure, work on building a healthy commons must continue alongside work to guarantee individual sovereignty but w/out the latter we lose personhood. Public space in the digital/networked age is the interconnections between individually-sovereign nodes.https://twitter.com/harryhalpin/status/1001065279705833472 …
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see new book by
@ajkeen - "how to fix the future" - makes a compelling case for the Estonian model, and to some extent the Singaporean (gov'ts running on the trust of the citizens, rather than single-minded profit extraction like FB/Goog) -
I’ve spoken with a representative of the Estonian government; they weren’t bothered about privacy issues. Singapore‘s government is authoritarian; not a role model. We deserve a commons where people; not corporations or governments are in control.
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"we deserve". Who, exactly, are WE?
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People. Individuals. Human beings.
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ah. Why do we "deserve" this? Were we good? Did we clean our rooms last night?
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I think "deserve" is not the main point Aral is making.
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