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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 19

      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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    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 19

      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. #SurveillanceCapitalism

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 19

      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. #SurveillanceCapitalism

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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 19

          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.

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 19

          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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        2. Raul Portales‏ @sla_shalafi Apr 19
          Replying to @aral

          I think this is the point most people hasn't realized yet.

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        4. Raul Portales‏ @sla_shalafi Apr 19
          Replying to @whakkee @aral

          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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        2. Goran‏ @gpeuc Apr 19
          Replying to @aral

          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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        3. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski Apr 20
          Replying to @gpeuc @aral

          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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        4. Goran‏ @gpeuc Apr 20
          Replying to @JodiKoberinski @aral

          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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        5. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski Apr 20
          Replying to @gpeuc @aral

          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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        6. Goran‏ @gpeuc Apr 20
          Replying to @JodiKoberinski @aral

          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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        7. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski Apr 21
          Replying to @gpeuc @aral

          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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        8. Goran‏ @gpeuc Apr 21
          Replying to @JodiKoberinski @aral

          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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