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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 10:08:31 EDT Strypey

"The [NZ] Government and its agencies buy about a sixth of all advertising - so they could be spending more than $100 million on social media [ie corporate-owned #DataFarms]."
https://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/two-cents-worth/story/2018687692/raw-power-in-the-internet-era
It's like watching them pay someone to punch the public in the face. Imagine the kind of privacy-respecting social web platform you could develop using #FreeCode, and host in the #PublicInterest, with $NZ100 million a year.
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1. Raw power in the Internet era
  
  from Radio New Zealand
  
  In the last week we have discovered just how little power our Government, the law and our biggest businesses have over Google and Facebook in our own country, let alone consumers. In the wake of the Christchurch shootings, Bernard Hickey looks at whether our advertising boycott of the major social media platforms will help stop terrorist live-streams.

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