Facebook is a factory farm for human beings. It is not your friend, it is not fundamentally good, it is an extractive and exploitative machine. Let’s stop expecting it to be what it is not and regulate it to limit its abuses. PS. Google, etc., have the exact same business model.
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#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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I think this is the point most people hasn't realized yet.
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It's a time waster, besides, there are psychological studies about how it impacts on self esteem and they aren't pretty.
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What if we regulated the depths/detail to which they can read/expose data? I am fine if Google knows 35% of people love CocaCola, and if I am in that 35%. But I don’t want to be personally identifiable. Essentially, chunky data vs. single-person data.
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I do mind. If internet were just for entertainment fine. But since few of us in industrialized countries can fully function in the culture without using the internet I don’t think any data of mine needs collecting. Internet is a Commons. Privatization is fucking us all.
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Internet is, the pipes are. (Or, well, should be). But services built on top of those pipes are not. Google is not internet. It’s a service. Vote with your choices, and don’t use Google.
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Ah. The false choice narrative. Google runs a near monopoly just like Facebook. Your argument is roads are the internet. Vehicles are google. Just take a bus, don’t take the car. Unless the bus only come every 5 hours.
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The fact one company holds near monopoly over a certain service does not mean the roads are broken. That is what Aral is doing to begin with — using the same pipes to build something new. Saying that the internet is broken just because a service is broken is just infantile.
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Goran to ignore the expanse of corporate surveillance state and suggest the internet is not broken is naive. I hear you saying there are other “roads” to take ... I am with Aral on declaring internet a Commons.
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Internet is fine, at least over here in Ireland. The corporations that built services on this internet are messed up. I am not dependent on Google, and am _this_ close to delete my Facebook. Using Apple services for the most part, and some smaller indie companies.
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