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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 15

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Nassos Kappa

    99.99999% of all money invested in mainstream technology today is invested in surveillance capitalists. We know them as “startups”. When every alternative has the same business model, you don’t have a choice. We didn’t agree, we resigned. Let’s fund/build true alternatives.https://twitter.com/NassosKappa/status/1007390445930991617 …

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    Nassos Kappa @NassosKappa
    We have all agreed to be there. They do whatever they like. We can leave their platform if we don’t like it. — Hard, I know. https://twitter.com/aral/status/1006926477231878145 …
    12:02 AM - 15 Jun 2018
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      2. Sandro Hawke‏ @sandhawke Jun 15
        Replying to @aral

        Does Apple count to you as surveillance capitalism?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 15
        Replying to @sandhawke

        Their business model isn’t based on monetising data, so no. However, they are centralised and closed and thus, at best, a stopgap. https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage …

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      1. Nassos Kappa‏ @NassosKappa Jun 15
        Replying to @aral

        I can’t agree more to this.

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      1. John Vore‏ @johnmvore Jun 15
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        Let’s fund startups that see privacy as fundamental to success and their digital platform as an intelligent shield for the every day person...(my vision, my startup: waiting for a meeting... )

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      1. John Vore‏ @johnmvore Jun 16
        Replying to @aral

        PS I can say in 3 lines how my psych-based Apps put end users first, protects them in real time, and maps addicts’ recovery and connection to recovery svcs locally. But need investors who want to see something diff in health space chat...

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      1. Urban Politics reconsidered‏ @UrbanPoliticsTO Jun 15
        Replying to @aral @ziyatong

        The overwhelming goal of technology today is attention. Keep people's attention on their screens, their apps. Nothing else matters more than exclusive attention, which sells advertising - their only revenue model that tech cares about. #putitdown

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      1.  🔅mutual-ayyde 🔅‏ @mutual_ayyde Jun 15
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        Let's just kill the advertising industry https://humaniterations.net/2011/12/31/lets-just-kill-the-advertising-industry/ …

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