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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 Feb 18

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Cezar Pokorski

    No, you know what, let’s not fucking appreciate the effort, shall we? Enough of this bullshit. It’s 2018 & these fuckers have won. If you don’t want democracy & human rights to be footnotes in history as you strive under algorithmic feudalism, wake the fuck up and do something.https://twitter.com/ikari/status/965152808407322625 …

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    Cezar Pokorski @ikari
    Replying to @aral @g16n
    Still, ad quality is an issue. Of course, Google isn't the best example of privacy as they have ALL your data anyway (they probably know more about me than I do), but let's just appreciate the effort.
    1:21 AM - 18 Feb 2018
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    • Filipe Farinha Udo Yuval يوڤال Adam Modern Life Is BS 🌹 Jesse Payne ouroboros Jagdish Achara Manon Gruaz (((tometaxu)))
    3 replies 16 retweets 36 likes
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      2. Filipe Farinha‏ @ktorn Feb 18
        Replying to @aral

        Sure but what do you suggest? Unless we can come up with a viable alternative to surveillance they won’t stop. And by viable alternative I mean, economically more appealing to “those fuckers”.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Feb 18
        Replying to @ktorn

        What was the viable alternative we came up to slavery for Southern plantation owners? Ah, that’s right, we didn’t. It was an abusive practice & we ended it. Our job isn’t to find new business models for Google & Facebook, it’s to regulate them & fund alternatives via the commons.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Filipe Farinha‏ @ktorn Feb 18
        Replying to @aral

        We’re saying almost the same thing. Our job is to fight for our individual and collective sovereignty. I say yes to regulation that adds friction to abusive practices and yes to alternatives that make those practices obsolete, rewriting business models in the process.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Filipe Farinha‏ @ktorn Feb 18
        Replying to @ktorn @aral

        But my main argument is that, as long as we live in a capitalist society, re-aligning economic incentives to support the fight for privacy is a good strategy.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Mirela Riveni‏ @mirusx Feb 18
        Replying to @aral

        This can be appreciated only as (bad)marketing;like propaganda in an established autocracy that works only for its supporters.”To us,your experience on the web is a higher priority than the money that these annoying ads may generate-even for us."🤦‍♀️aha,no calculation,right..

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Mirela Riveni‏ @mirusx Feb 18
        Replying to @mirusx @aral

        “Supporters” (for one reason or another)

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      1. feecf  ❌‏ @siriusflood Feb 18
        Replying to @aral

        I just realized these stories weren't SEO backlink seeding in preparation for an April Fools joke. 😰

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