If we can’t go beyond what we’re doing today – which is expecting factory farms to become animal sanctuaries – we are not going to be effective in fixing this problem.
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Let me put it this way: if Facebook or Google started truly respecting your privacy, they’d go bankrupt. Expecting them to do this – and to do it voluntarily to boot – is the heights of naïveté.
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How do we fix
#SurveillanceCapitalism? Easy: “Regulate and Replace” 1. Regulate people farmers like Facebook, Inc., Alphabet, Inc., etc. 2. Replace them with decentralised, free and open, and interoperable ethical alternatives funded from the commons for the common good.Show this thread -
And by “easy”, I mean “phenomenally difficult” unless we: 1. Admit they are fundamentally bad actors and label them as adversaries not partners so that their toxic business model becomes socially unacceptable. 2. Combat institutional corruption. 3. Change what we fund and how.
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Do you have companies dir doing ethical design or taking the approaches you discuss? Would be handy a source for: - social networks - server providers - email services - messaging services I've seen the ones you mentioned, but not sure extent of them. Maybe help you contribute?
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I don’t, but you’re right, this should be a priority. I’ve already begun to unofficially compile case studies. The hardest thing is for it to not devolve into a generic (or worse, greenwashed) certification of sorts. My criteria for such a thing would be https://ind.ie/ethical-design
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Can we really regulate FB or Google without making them open source their code?
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That would be an end goal to aim for. A good first step is to demand algorithmic transparency so that at least regulators and auditors have access to the code and know exactly what is being done. Without that baseline, no, we cannot. And they’ll fight that tooth and nail.
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True. If FB doesn’t want to open source the code, at least make them give the government access to their code base. That would be a great first step.
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Jaron Lanier just gave an excellent
@TEDTalks on “How We Need To Remake The Internet.” He posits that Google and FB can’t be free AND regulated (ie not evil)https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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