I hope I don’t have to spell out how absolutely fucking horrible it would be if Google is allowed to buy Twitter.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11520819/Google-looking-at-buying-Twitter.html …
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The only way to have a true competitor to Twitter is to create a supra-national entity to build and run it in the interest of the commons.
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We must do this if we want to avoid a future where all democratic instruments & public spaces are privately owned by corporate monopolies.
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(In other words, if we want to avoid a future where we don’t really have any democratic instruments or public spaces; i.e., corporatocracy.)
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@aral it’s all private. It may be in a “public” space but the infrastructure, data, travel... Is all private. -
@aral what I’m getting at no public space exists without its private foundations. A disappointing catch 22. Were a separation only possible
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@aral@daraghobrien The word for such a corporate future is dysagurianhttp://www.cearta.ie/2015/01/the-privations-of-privacy-from-dystopia-to-dysaguria-2/ … -
@cearta@daraghobrien How about “dyscorpia” — easier to pronounce and based on the same etymological root as the word corporation itself :)
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@aral If TPP, TTIP &/or TISA are passed, we will live in a corporate feudal society. Data access will be stratified.pic.twitter.com/kWHKlZ7QWL
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral@kcarruthers No public space for public speaking or discourse.#occupyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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