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    1. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 28 Mar 2020

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      The techlash is over. https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1243610572161028096 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
      Replying to @balajis

      The good chunk of the “techlash” was misguided. We don’t need it, Facebook isn’t useful, I’d like to walk in the sand instead blah blah. That was nonsense and (falling) elite discomfort. There are remaining issues, particularly about the incentive structures in the rising world.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @balajis

      Those questions did not get enough traction but they will not go away. I guess I can only hope they get discussed and addressed in the saner world. *laughs and cries while even typing*

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    4. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 29 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      You can declare partial victory though. Tech folks do now think more broadly about different constituencies. If a platform gets big enough, not "just" a company anymore. In the nick of time too, given rising nationalism and fall of the EU and other international institutions...

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
      Replying to @balajis

      Let me give an example. Tech issues were framed in a "what about individual privacy" narrative. That made little sense because the privacy/surveillance problem is a collective action/public goods problem. At the individual level, the trade-off is clear. Google maps, take my data!

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @balajis

      The question is not what happens if Google has my data, but it has a billion people's data, and what's their incentive structure? That barely got discussed. I've also advocated for privacy-preserving ML, federated learning etc. because there is no "click on yes/no" out of this.+

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @balajis

          This problem is.. strikingly similar to the mask issue. At the individual level, masks may not protect you fully from someone coughing on you, but at the collective level, they protect everyone by stopping asymptomatic folks from infecting! Tech folks immediately got that one!

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @balajis

          It's a different way of thinking about design. Not "where did these ugly cars come from, I want my beautiful horses. It was so romantic!" (That's old elite/gatekeeper nostalgia). I want a discussion on: wait, we have cars. Cool. Do we want suburbs? How should we design cities?

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        2. vitalik.eth‏Verified account @VitalikButerin 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @balajis

          A big challenge with the cryptographic solutions is just that the tech to use them easily "plug-and-play" style, doesn't really work yet. Anything more complex than encryption historically required a custom protocol, software tools that few understand, huge hits in efficiency....

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        3. vitalik.eth‏Verified account @VitalikButerin 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @VitalikButerin @zeynep @balajis

          That said, this is changing. Zero knowledge proofs, for example, are rapidly commodifying, largely thanks to high demand from the blockchain/cryptocurrency space, and tools are quickly improving, eg:https://blog.iden3.io/introducing-circom-0-point-5.html …

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        2. Scott Domianus‏ @scottdomianus 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @balajis

          Privacy is a nonissue. The only people who want privacy want to game majority rule when it’s not in their favor. If you want to stop tech influence invent better tech to enact your guiding imposition on humanity. You‘ll do it to the best of your ability because your survival...

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        3. Scott Domianus‏ @scottdomianus 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @scottdomianus @zeynep @balajis

          depends on it which goes to show the incentive works and shouldn’t be restricted to serve a failure to adapt to the flux of innovation and its cultural repercussions. Respectfully, the repercussions inform the innovations. Laws aren’t innovations, they’re impositions.

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