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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 Mar 28

      Aral Balkan Retweeted ./kaerF

      Right, so, let’s educate you, shall we? First off, do you mean (a) right libertarian or (b) left libertarian? (As these are entirely different things.) If you mean to imply that I’m right libertarian, you can fuck right off. If you mean left libertarian, guilty as charged…https://twitter.com/FreakkaerF/status/979200526624673792 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      ./kaerF @FreakkaerF
      Replying to @aral
      I’m calling your argument libertarian, made for cheap populist thrills.
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    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

      Next, let’s move onto to the next lesson: institutional corruption. Now listen up, because this is an important one. It concerns the corrupting influence of money. When organisation A (Mozilla) gets all of its money from organisation B (Google) that creates influence…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979235466330476545 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Aral Balkan @aral
      Right, so, let’s educate you, shall we? First off, do you mean (a) right libertarian or (b) left libertarian? (As these are entirely different things.) If you mean to imply that I’m right libertarian, you can fuck right off. If you mean left libertarian, guilty as charged… https://twitter.com/FreakkaerF/status/979200526624673792 …
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    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

      The thing is, if Google stops paying Mozilla ~ half a billion dollars/year, Mozilla goes bankrupt. In common parlance, this is referred to as Mozilla being Google’s bitch. But even if Mozilla wasn’t entirely funded by surveillance capitalism, any funding would be influence…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236018665730049 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Aral Balkan @aral
      Next, let’s move onto to the next lesson: institutional corruption. Now listen up, because this is an important one. It concerns the corrupting influence of money. When organisation A (Mozilla) gets all of its money from organisation B (Google) that creates influence… https://twitter.com/aral/status/979235466330476545 …
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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

      Now look at how Mozilla positions itself: a not-for-profit working to protect privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Hmm, and it gets all its money from one of the biggest threats to privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Can you say “whitewash?”https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236834046894080 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Aral Balkan @aral
      The thing is, if Google stops paying Mozilla ~ half a billion dollars/year, Mozilla goes bankrupt. In common parlance, this is referred to as Mozilla being Google’s bitch. But even if Mozilla wasn’t entirely funded by surveillance capitalism, any funding would be influence… https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236018665730049 …
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      11:04 PM - 28 Mar 2018
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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

          Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

          What if Greenpeace got half a billion dollars from Exxon Mobil every year and would go bankrupt if it couldn’t get paid by the fossil fuel industry. Would you be as naïvely trusting of it too? And the issue of institutional corruption goes far beyond Mozilla…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979237747796869120 …

          Aral Balkan added,

          Aral Balkan @aral
          Now look at how Mozilla positions itself: a not-for-profit working to protect privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Hmm, and it gets all its money from one of the biggest threats to privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Can you say “whitewash?” https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236834046894080 …
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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

          Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

          Institutional corruption is the reason we cannot regulate toxic corporations effectively. The same influence of corporate finance that taints Mozilla also taints public policymaking via lobbying and revolving doors.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979238418122190848 …

          Aral Balkan added,

          Aral Balkan @aral
          What if Greenpeace got half a billion dollars from Exxon Mobil every year and would go bankrupt if it couldn’t get paid by the fossil fuel industry. Would you be as naïvely trusting of it too? And the issue of institutional corruption goes far beyond Mozilla… https://twitter.com/aral/status/979237747796869120 …
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        4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

          Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

          In the Brussels bubble, for example, it’s hard – in the words of Orwell – to differentiate the pigs from the humans sometimes.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979239312834334721 …

          Aral Balkan added,

          Aral Balkan @aral
          Institutional corruption is the reason we cannot regulate toxic corporations effectively. The same influence of corporate finance that taints Mozilla also taints public policymaking via lobbying and revolving doors. https://twitter.com/aral/status/979238418122190848 …
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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

          Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

          Given that institutional corruption is an existential risk to democracy, to have a @Piratenpartei MEP’s assistant label criticism of it as “libertarianism” is either the product of extreme naïveté or, quite frankly, both highly baffling and hugely worrying. Class dismissed.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979240643036884992 …

          Aral Balkan added,

          Aral Balkan @aral
          In the Brussels bubble, for example, it’s hard – in the words of Orwell – to differentiate the pigs from the humans sometimes. https://twitter.com/aral/status/979239312834334721 …
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        6. End of conversation
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        2. Robert Benjamin‏ @coopkungfu Mar 28
          Replying to @aral

          Often wondered how that all worked. Why google search was piped into Firefox? What’s Mozilla’s way out? Use DuckDuckGo and figure out some way to be solvent some other way.

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        3. Asa Dotzler‏ @asadotzler Mar 29
          Replying to @coopkungfu @aral

          Google search (and yahoo search and otheres) were built into Mozilla many years before there was any revenue associated with it. The "why" was because users of the 2000s searched as much at they surfed and we wanted to support that in our product.

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        4. Robert Benjamin‏ @coopkungfu Mar 29
          Replying to @asadotzler @aral

          Was there ever a Mozilla search engine in development by the way?

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        5. Asa Dotzler‏ @asadotzler Mar 29
          Replying to @coopkungfu @aral

          Nope. Mozilla hasn't built a search engine. We did acquire Pocket, which is a user-powered recommendation engine (sort of) and you can see that integration in Firefox's start page with recommended Pocket stories.

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        6. Robert Benjamin‏ @coopkungfu Mar 29
          Replying to @asadotzler

          Yeah I’ve been noticing those but had yet to click on any yet. Interesting. I’ll have to dive in a bit. Quality discovery and curation is woefully nonexistent online in general. Is that a revenue source then? What’s the model? Free now ads in the future?

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        7. Asa Dotzler‏ @asadotzler Mar 29
          Replying to @coopkungfu

          I don't think there will be ads in Pocket. But right now publishers of Pocket recommended stories (exposed to hundreds of millions of Firefox users) are getting lots of Firefox traffic for free. Maybe they'd pay for some of that traffic. That's how search revenue started.

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        8. Robert Benjamin‏ @coopkungfu Mar 29
          Replying to @asadotzler

          Man if Mozilla would just go #platformcoop. With the reach and legacy it would change the face of the internet overnight. You want to be around in 100 years and still have founding values intact that is the way to do it.

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        9. End of conversation

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