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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. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Apr 2015

      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 …

      16 replies 84 retweets 36 likes
    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Apr 2015
      Replying to @aral

      If Twitter was not private property, it would have the potential to be the most valuable democratic instrument of the networked age.

      8 replies 23 retweets 11 likes
    3. juan.gif‏ @romeroabelleira 8 Apr 2015
      Replying to @aral

      @aral Twitter and Google (just the search engine) should be international infrastructure. As common as Common Goods get.

      6 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
    4. Craig Moore‏ @Shoseki 8 Apr 2015
      Replying to @romeroabelleira

      @romeroabelleira @aral The problem is that "public property" is usually supported by the state, which means it can be state censored.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Apr 2015
      Replying to @Shoseki

      .@Shoseki @romeroabelleira Hence why we need an independent supra-national entity that would work in the interest of the global commons.

      12:33 AM - 8 Apr 2015
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        1. John Light‏ @lightcoin 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @aral

          @aral it's called the Internet ;) @Shoseki @romeroabelleira

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        2. Philip‏ @philipc 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @shoseki @romeroabelleira that entity would need authority over corporations in many instances…that's the big rub.

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        3. Philip‏ @philipc 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @philipc

          @aral @shoseki @romeroabelleira I actually don't want to be the negative ass here…just hoping there are ideas to move forward.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Philip‏ @philipc 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @philipc

          @aral @shoseki @romeroabelleira If anything scares me about state vs corps is the TPP treaties/pacts/whatever legal mumbo they call it.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Chris Brind‏ @brindy 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @aral

          @aral Is there such an entity that exists? maybe the IEEE? Though I suspect you have some beef against them too... ;)

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        3. Chris Brind‏ @brindy 8 Apr 2015
          Replying to @brindy

          @aral Personally, I feel it has to be a distributed grass-roots movement. It can't rely on an "organisation" at all.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Ian Cooper‏ @ICooper 8 Apr 2015
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          @aral @Shoseki @romeroabelleira I can't see nation states ceding power without conflict. Even EU born out of WW2...

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