amazon, spaceX, whatever, they are both run by *the baddies*. I'm not saying that peeps who use their stuff are bad, we're all held hostage by any of the telcos, but I do caution that the cost will be high when we cede our infrastructure to any monopoly.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/report-amazon-made-1b-with-secret-algorithm-for-spiking-prices-internet-wide/
and I said this 2 years ago... “Digital colonialism is fucking dangerous, and we're not even talking about that... The trick is: how can we balance this need for fighting colonization with the tools that it is using to oppress us?”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78mnz/spacexs-satellite-megaconstellations-are-astrocolonialism-indigenous-advocates-say
Note that I wrote this 3 years ago: "What’s to stop either SpaceX or the US government from choosing who can be monitored, censured, throttled, or cut-off from service altogether? Will this end up serving as yet another mechanism to erode privacy rights?"
https://animikii.com/insights/digital-divide-spacex-starlink-and-the-indigenous-spaces-between
Mis impresiones de una visita en China, el π-HuB Global Summit & CNHUPO 2023, Sep 2023. https://mexico-pensante.blog/display/eb6814cf-1565-1b1e-fee6-662402275329
@dk
I'm intrigued by this. I've been thinking a lot about so called NGO's strategies and the non-solving of problems. And empowerment vs dependency creation. Care to elaborate on this graphic?
„Search engines are far from passive components of the web, they construct a selective new reality – and obscure more than they show […]", says Michiel Leenaars, Director of Strategy at @nlnetlabs.
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@eliza
a Paywhat?
https://archive.is/HDnUa
Oh, we have a new home page on https://offdem.net/
It should be contrasted enough.
Some links may be missing still, but we’re working on it…
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@eliza Youtube as the voting register! Maybe the fairies are trying to tell us sonething.
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@becha A wise man once suggested that expectations are best avoided as unfullfilled hopes (and wishes I suppose) are somehow easier to accept. So, now with this experience in the bag, it seems more likely that your hopes will be met next time, yay!
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