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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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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

    OK, so I’m beginning to see this (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/nationalise-google-facebook-amazon-data-monopoly-platform-public-interest …) pop up more often so, categorically: we must *not* nationalise Google, FB, …

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        …The solution to corporate-run surveillance-based centralised silos is not to make them into state-run surveillance-based centralised silos…

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        …The solution is to effectively regulate their abuses while simultaneously funding/encouraging decentralised, free/open, interoperable alts…

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        …We must realise that to protect integrity of personhood in the networked age, data about people must be owned/controlled by individuals…

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        …and data about the commons should be owned by the commons. …

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      6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        We need nothing less than to transition from an Internet of Things (owned & controlled by corporations) to an Internet of People. …

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 31 Aug 2017

        Learn more: https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age … https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons … https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen … https://ar.al/notes/towards-an-internet-of-people-with-diem25 … https://ar.al/notes/diem25-internet-of-people-launch-in-berlin/ …

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      2. Tijmen Schep‏ @tijmenschep 31 Aug 2017
        Replying to @aral

        Surveillance abuse will happen in both situations (Snowden). Nationalization could bring democratic oversight and norms. It's complicated.

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      3. Ellen Bijsterbosch‏ @EllenBijster 1 Sep 2017
        Replying to @tijmenschep @aral

        Nationalization is not the same as regulation. You're confusing a soccer player with the rules of soccer.

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      4. Tijmen Schep‏ @tijmenschep 1 Sep 2017
        Replying to @EllenBijster @aral

        You're right, good point. Still, I support the article's underlying sentiment of more democratic control over our digital infrastructure.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 1 Sep 2017
        Replying to @tijmenschep @EllenBijster

        As do I. That must take the form of democratic oversight and regulation and the funding of decentralised alts not govt ownership/execution.

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      1. Ain Tohvri‏ @tekkie 31 Aug 2017
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        I can't imagine how a left-wing newspaper gets things as wrong. They do not understand the essential problem :S #facebook #google #privacy

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      1. There goes the neighbourhood‏ @JustAnOthr 31 Aug 2017
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        Wholeheartedly agree with you. I was perplexed to see support for this idea given the dangers of surveillance both corporate and state.

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      1. darien eqvilibrivm‏ @EQVILIBRIS 31 Aug 2017
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        Governments must not TAKE OVER private companies. Governments should establish 'social media' interactions with citizens, proprietary.pic.twitter.com/adoxB8LUNP

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      1. Comrade Rosie Williams‏ @Info_Aus 31 Aug 2017
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        @CryptoAustralia check out this thread

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