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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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 Interested. Do you know of any platforms like this, or have you built any? -
@harmonylion1 There are free/open efforts, etc. But necessary infrastructure is huge. Either you must be VC-backed or publicly-funded. -
@aral I wonder if bonds could be issued to accomplish this... It's needed infrastructure
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@aral apart from the hobbled hacked and brutalized thing called 'internet', tell me about one more such 'supra-national' thing that exists
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@aral That's the way all these internet services nominally started - free, for all, for the common good. Then greed and opportunism struckThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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