They have to make money. So they sell your information to someone who will use that data to sell you something. How can they make a profit otherwise?
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They want to make money, they do not need to. They should pay me to make money of my private stuff. Not the other way around. If an organisation can't make money in a decent way, their policy is broken. Privacy as a market is a horrific future image
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Replying to @ArtheosNL @zeynep and
If they don’t make money, how can they pay their developers? I agree that it’s horrific and the potential for misuse is pretty clear.
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Replying to @SeanJMacIsaac @zeynep and
Such abusing companies simply should not exist.
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Replying to @ArtheosNL @SeanJMacIsaac and
I look forward to the announcement of the free and ethical social media platform you create.
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Replying to @wbhauck @ArtheosNL and
I'm not sure it exists *yet* but I'd imagine before long
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Replying to @simonevery @wbhauck and
They have VC, what’s their exit strategy? Rule of thumb: Actual solutions to this problem are not going to make those implementing them billionaires.
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Replying to @aral @simonevery and
Hey Aral, big fan of yours and respect your views on this matter. Specifically understand the concerns regarding VC funding and corporate-owned solutions that can be acquired, manipulated, etc. That said, please allow me to clarify a few things...
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Replying to @ryaneshea @aral and
Blockstack is a platform, community & movement, akin to Bitcoin & Ethereum. The software is open source and anyone can produce compatible, competing implementations. The largest employer of core software engineers is a for-profit public benefit corporation named Blockstack PBC.
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Replying to @ryaneshea @simonevery and
Hey Ryan, thanks for elaborating. Blockstack is one of the few block* initiatives I’m actually watching. There are legitimate uses for decentralised trust. I’m sure you’ll agree none alone will fix surveillance capitalism—we must also topologically decentralise the network.
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(It does sadden me that 99.99999% of the investment goes into block* solutions, 99% of which are right-libertarian get rich quick schemes, while any funding into topological decentralisation efforts is, statistically speaking, a rounding error if that.)
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Replying to @aral @ryaneshea and
(Mostly because, given the nature of topological decentralisation, no one who is actually working on legitimate solutions to this problem is ever going to be a billionaire. On the contrary, that’s one of the success criteria. So no VC is ever going to invest in that.)
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