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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If Twitter was not private property, it would have the potential to be the most valuable democratic instrument of the networked age.
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Instead, it’s an example of that potential squandered for the short-term financial compensation of relative handful of investors.
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Until we understand the danger of our digital public spaces being privately owned (& thus private spaces) we can’t even begin to solve this.
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We’re faced with living in a future where all our public spaces are privately owned. Where there is no public sphere, only a corporate one.
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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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@cearta @daraghobrien How about “dyscorpia” — easier to pronounce and based on the same etymological root as the word corporation itself :)
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