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This privilege may be unilaterally modified or revoked at any time by said transnational corporation who owns the space you’re a guest of.
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While it works now (mostly), we’d be fools, long-term, to trust the medium of short-form immediate global communication to a private entity.
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And the only alternative I can see is a new global organisation, akin to the UN, to create a competing public network.
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Because no other enterprise, without private subsidy & a free (as in cost) business model can hope to compete at scale.
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@aral There are ppl working on this, like@FreedomBoxFndn, @cznweb and@SandstormIO. Pls share this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-cloud-platform …@archnerdian2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@forteller Yep, aware of Sandstorm & already shared.
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