“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”
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#2A VIP reason to have popular alternatives to services like those provided by the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter that are not controlled by monster corporations.
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#3I wonder how monopolized publishing is these days. If you want to get the message out about something, how much are you at the mercy of a few distribution channels and how much do we have an open ecosystem that gives everybody equal rights? I am honestly not sure.
How important is it to be on Facebook? On Twitter? On Reddit? On HN? Indexed by Google? Have connections to the Huffington Post?
If you have something interesting to say, can those forces stop you? Or will it spread because it is interesting?
If you make great art, will it become popular just because it is great? Or does it depend on your marketing skills?
Could we have technology that makes interesting, helpful content spread no matter what?
Do we have to invent some kind of "internet voting" system to accomplish this? Can blockchain technology help with this?
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#4A very valid point, which will sadly be entirely ignored.
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#5A VIP reason to have popular alternatives to services like those provided by the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter that are not controlled by monster corporations.
I joined the sysad.org diaspora pod and am enjoying it quite a bit.
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#6Facebook removes post. The fact that other people believe this post should stay (for whatever reason) is immaterial. It's not their site.
Water is wet, news at 11.
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#7Excerpt from http://www.dagsavisen.no/verden/the-girl-in-the-picture-sadd...
“Kim is saddened by those who would focus on the nudity in the historic picture rather than the powerful message it conveys”, writes spokesperson Anne Bayin to Dagsavisen.
Kim Phuc says that it has been painful to see the picture, but that it represents an important moment in history.
“She fully supports the documentary image taken by Nick Ut as a moment of truth that captures the horror of war and its effects on innocent victims”, writes the Kim Phuc Foundation in a statement.
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#8Facebook removes post. The fact that other people believe this post should stay (for whatever reason) is immaterial. It's not their site. Water is wet, news at 11.
Sorry for the honesty folks. This is what happens when you give up control to a central authority that has absolutely no requirement for consistency or even a requirement to allow anything.
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#9Facebook removes post. The fact that other people believe this post should stay (for whatever reason) is immaterial. It's not their site. Water is wet, news at 11.
The author of the article is asking whether or not it is good that one of the world's main channels of information is controlled by a large company that can and does do whatever it wants with the information. Once a company becomes large enough and controls enough of our lives, the fact that it technically can do whatever it wants becomes "immaterial" as you say. That makes this story more significant than just "water is wet." Like it or not, we don't live in a libertarian society.
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#10You're a serf on the content farm, begging your lord for a favor.