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PushkarChaubalFirstPaper 4 - 22 Apr 2024 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | With Bigtech's storied history of sharing data to both commercial third parties and the US government, it begs the question of the extent to which our psychographic data, harvested from the learnings of short-video platforms, is being reviewed by unfriendly actors. The future looks dire. | |
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It wouldn't be so dire if the draft didn't pretty much ignore the fact that platforms provide services to which there are alternatives, so if we want not individually to inhabit the Parasite's form of the future, we can substantially avoid it. Services that are easily federated (email, video-conferencing, messaging, micro-blogging, web hosting, shared document editing, pickup/dropoff through browsers, etc.) can all be offered by us to one another, using hardware so cheap and software so free that 8th graders can learn how to set up families/small businesses, and they can make real money in high school helping people to live very much on the net and absolutely not at all in the Parasite-infected paltforms. With a little browser security, removing ads on the way in and trackers on the way out, such as could be provided by switching to Brave plus AdBlockPlus and NoScript or by using a FreedomBox as a wifi or plugin router at home or work, the human being's endpoint is pretty clean. (It can be made more clean by rebooting into Tails, if the hardware isn't pre-corrupted by the King of the Undead, Now Dead). The services the human being needs are being provided by non-platform non-invasive servers, either her own or operated by people she actually knows and can trust. Some bright young person is able to look after the technical support, and grownups can learn how if they want to. It's all so cheap that anyone can afford it.
So maybe the next draft should leave behind many words we both don't need repeated about the nature of the problem, and a little more analysis of the points at which the technical and social control system of the Parasite could be interfered with and (how surprisingly!) there appears to exist lots of software that can do everything we need in use all over the Net by people who know how and distributions like FreedomBox that make it actually useable by those who don't.
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