The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
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Re: The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
#2I am glad this is being generally realized and people are no longer pretending the status quo is fine. It's the first step toward changing things.
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#3I am glad this is being generally realized and people are no longer pretending the status quo is fine. It's the first step toward changing things.
I don't know. Given that the free internet gave us the likes of 4chan, things are changing in the other direction for a reason. It's kind of unclear to me whether the pendulum is ready to swing back towards lack of oversight again.
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#4This is the first time I have heard of a "tech crisis" - and I think it's appropriate. I think we, as industry leaders, need to accept and address our faults and shadows. The first step to progress is to admit that you need help.
Re: The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
#5I can accept some of what is said on this article but from a technical perspective the internet (imho) offers much more opportunities to create and collaborate than any other time in the past.
I believe most of the shortcomings and abuse of the internet is a result of mass adoptation of the technology without correspnding legislature. Societies just haven't caught up with technology,even well seasoned technologists struggle to grasp the privacy implications and economic complexities at hand. There is also the psychological aspect where the mechanics of the internet are intangible and we have a hard time conceptualizing and grasping these complexities the same way we do tangible constructs. Imagine how complex a physical machine would be if it was as complex as a web browser,but we can see it and we can easily grasp the scale of the complexity and adjust our approach on how to use and secure it accordingly.
Re: The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
#6You just aren't looking hard enough. The internet of creation is vastly bigger than it used to be, it's just covered by a bigger pile of steaming shit.
Re: The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
#7"our battle is not lost, but that we can control the use of our data, [...] that the privacy laws that protect us are obeyed."
Privacy, privacy. We've actually developed a self-hosted private cloud solution as a substitute to Dropbox for exactly these reasons. Basically a private Dropbox at home (no complicated installation and no server needed)
We're currently in beta, could interest a few in this thread! https://www.duple.io/en/
The point is to have a product that works just like a Dropbox, as simple and straightforward, but that is actually private with no one interfering, playing, accessing or reading your data.
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#9I can accept some of what is said on this article but from a technical perspective the internet (imho) offers much more opportunities to create and collaborate than any other time in the past. I believe most of the shortcomings and abuse of the internet is a result of mass adoptation of the technology without correspnding legislature. Societies just haven't caught up with technology,even well seasoned technologists s…
> offers much more opportunities to create and collaborate than any other time in the past.
We had skype, games, ICQ, MSN, blogs, blog aggregators, rss readers, galleries, audiogalaxy, guestbooks, forums, hotline communications, IRC, video chats, joomla, wikis etc etc in the year 2003. Not much has been added. Video is perhaps the only thing that we didnt have. A big deal but it s not everything. The main change was the format - mobile. The internet today feels less vibrant, less mysterious, with less corners to explore, and it's not because we 've exhausted it all. Even the news have become extremely repetitive, with every site posting the same stories slightly rephrsed. People keep parroting the same obsessive ideas over and over and over in their comments. Everything is memes, and that everything is actually a small number of ideas being produced every day, possibly countable in one hand. You have to dig hard into social forums to find a unique perspective, as the self-congratulating, selfimportant crowds seem to have crowded out everyone else.
Anecdotally, how many sites do you find yourselves browsing daily?
Re: The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
#10"our battle is not lost, but that we can control the use of our data, [...] that the privacy laws that protect us are obeyed." Privacy, privacy. We've actually developed a self-hosted private cloud solution as a substitute to Dropbox for exactly these reasons. Basically a private Dropbox at home (no complicated installation and no server needed) We're currently in beta, could interest a few in this thread! https://ww…
There's more to do than that. We need decentralized replacement for social media And our own email servers for starters. This should all come in one box like a wifi access point or modem.