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  1. Stefanie Schulte (stefanieschulte@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 06:41:12 EST Stefanie Schulte Stefanie Schulte

    #WeWashing: "when organizations refer to renting and selling services as 'sharing' and/or use terms like 'community' in misleading ways":

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leesean-huang/wewashing-when-sharing-is_b_6879018.html

    "At worst, [the #sharingeconomy label] is a way of obfuscating commercial transactions as 'sharing' as a way of evade the reach of regulation and oversight."

    (via Frank Pasquale, https://twitter.com/FrankPasquale/status/944754728612913152)

    In conversation Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 06:41:12 EST from mastodon.cloud permalink

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    1. #WeWashing: When "Sharing" Is Renting and "Community" Is a Commodity
      from HuffPost
      WeWashing is a new term that refers to the abuse of words like "sharing" and "community." Use #WeWashing to identify and critique this abuse.
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