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1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 15:48:06 EST neil 🍄

   I’d like to read The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor. Looks pretty on point to me.

   "The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force. A place where all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People’s Platform argues that the Internet in fact amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them."

   1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 15:48:25 EST neil 🍄

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      "Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. A handful of giant companies remain the gatekeepers, while the worst habits of the old media model — the pressure to seek easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all — have proliferated in the ad-driven system."

      1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 15:48:49 EST neil 🍄

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         ""We can do better, Astra Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people’s platform, we will have to make it so."