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Aral Balkan
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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    1.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      Infowars being removed from the internet in a week is not proof of some coordinated attack by all major social media corporations, it's the free market at work. Infowars has been a pain in the arse for social media corporations for a while due to how controversial it is.

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    2.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      Controversy in the advertising industry, which is what social media is, is the devil. It creates uncertainty for advertisers, who doesn't want their products associated with controversy at hand. This is not a political bias, its how these companies earn their money.

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    3.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      Is it good that infowars was banned? No, i think it sets a dangerous precedent. Can't say i care about Alex Jones, but the social media industry naturally monopolises into a few websites due to the network effect. This will always happen.

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    4.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      The sad thing is that there really isn't a lot that can be done. "Free Speech Alternatives" like @getongab are bound to fail, first and foremost because it appeals to people literally too toxic to be on the mainstream platforms, but also just due to simple market forces.

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    5.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      Advertising has over the years proven itself to be the most profitable form of running a website, it simply creates the most capital. Any company that tries more ethical ways of growth will lose to the ones that doesn't. They just can't keep up in capital growth.

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    6.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      The internet is screwed up at the moment, and if your goal is an internet free of surveillance and censorship, it will not be created by a private entity.

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    7.  😺Ras 😺‏ @Rasmp42 Aug 6

      What we need is what @aral calls an internet of people. If we want to defeat surveillance capitalism we will need radical change in how the internet is run. How these changes will be adopted I sadly don't know but at this point its clear that it will not be through the market.

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    8. Jon Grythe Stødle‏ @jonstodle Aug 6
      Replying to @Rasmp42 @aral

      I see datproject sometimes mentioned in relation to a "new internet"https://datproject.org/ 

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Aug 6
      Replying to @jonstodle @Rasmp42

      Quite possibly a fundament of the next web, and very much built on the foundations of the Internet and the best aspects of the current web, yes :)

      10:10 PM - 6 Aug 2018
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