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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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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#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.2 replies 20 retweets 44 likesShow this thread -
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The free and open alternative is *not* easy. There are many solutions on the market and none got wide adoption.
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Yep, been working in it for a while now ;) Timely tweet:https://twitter.com/aral/status/987242443425894400 …
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