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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 Apr 15

      “Smart City” is a Silicon Valley brand. It is a vision of the future where our cities are panopticons where our governments and a handful of corporations get smarter about us. Smart Citizen is a rejection of this Silicon Valley imperialism. It is the opposite of a Smart City.

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 15

      A Smart Citizen platform is: • Funded from the commons for the common good • Free and open • Decentralised/federated • Interoperable (no lock in) It is a platform that is owned & controlled by the people. It is a platform that enables people to get smarter about themselves.

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        2. Sam Liban‏ @Sam_Liban Apr 16
          Replying to @aral

          Just out of curiosity. Do you think a platform can start „by the commons“? Would it not need to start private and then transition to a commons platform? Issue is „laziness/indifference of the commons“, or how do you solve that?

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 17
          Replying to @Sam_Liban

          The Internet was started “by the commons” (and by that, I mean with taxpayer money) so yes, definitely. Our project is one example. We do and should be funding public infrastructure from the public purse if we don’t want it to be privately-owned and controlled.

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        4. Sam Liban‏ @Sam_Liban Apr 17
          Replying to @aral

          Got you (now I did). I had misunderstood it, then. I will get back to you though, once we try to jumpstart our solution! Thanks for the fight, Aral!

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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 17
          Replying to @Sam_Liban

          Neat :) Looking forward to hearing about it. Best of luck, Sam :)

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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 15
          Replying to @hYvACMlOrbokTvR

          @aantonop Are you aware of this scam? They’re using your identity. (Just a heads up.) :) CC @Twitter @spam

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        3. Andreas M. Antonopoulos‏Verified account @aantonop Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @hYvACMlOrbokTvR and

          Thanks Aral. There are hundreds of impersonators nowadays. Twitter is failing to manage the problem (as they are with everything else).

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        1. mydogisahusky‏ @meekers999 Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @aantonop

          The problem speaking as an American, is that such a system would require: Intelligent citizens willing to accept responsibility for their actions and freedom. Americans don't do that anymore...we're working on it...

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        1. Brad Mills‏ @bradmillscan Apr 15
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          @stevennerayoff

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        1. crypto lerk‏ @CryptOleRK Apr 15
          Replying to @aral

          Sometimes the population doesn't know what's best for them though...

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        1. $CryptoKeeper‏ @WatchWannaDo14 Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @aantonop

          So will the one with the biggest funds decide what the common good is?

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        1. Lethal Weapon‏ @billy1birdy Apr 15
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          The problem with Smart Citizen is that it would quickly become preyed upon by hackers, scammers and fraudsters. Similar to crypto.

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        1. TIME IS THE ONLY LUXURY‏Verified account @camerongrey Apr 15
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          With a proper/fair/accountable voting system the smart city would work just fine. Complete/absolute surveillance is coming for sure; the problem is the old greedy white men in power and until that changes, the ppl/slaves don’t mean shit and will be exploited at every turn.

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        1. mydogisahusky‏ @meekers999 Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @aantonop

          Faced with such a system, TPTB will attempt to criminalize it...hahaha. Just joking, Sort of. Nice definition though. We love you Andreas. Many of us came in through the door via binge watching your videos.

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        1. Derek‏ @PereGrimmer Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @aantonop

          As the farmer of lore said to the lost townie, "ya can't get there from here."

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        1. ObjectiveCryptoAnalysis‏ @majning Apr 15
          Replying to @aral @aantonop

          https://info.btcz.rocks  Every point you made is in this project.

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