Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 6

it turns out that NYTimes "Privacy Project" was a honeypot for privacy advocates all along (who built a ladder of legitimacy for Google to climb), not just readers (who had their data pilfered by tons of Big Tech trackers). #SurveillanceCapitalism

RT @aral@twitter.com

❤️ this :) https://twitter.com/steveparks/status/1139149661925761024

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/aral/status/1139458142188781568

Socialist critics of surveillance capitalism: corporations shouldn’t own and control your data

Me: Hear, hear!

Also them: But it’s OK if governments own and control your data if we’re the ones in government…

Me: No, actually that’s not OK either.

Them: you filthy capitalist!

Yeah, well Aral’s my name as a human being and my petroleum company namesake can go take a flying fuck because trademark law does not apply. First time I’m seeing this notice. The Internet is for people not corporations. Maybe it’s time we remembered that and starting implementing laws to ensure it before we lose it altogether.

What’s worse? I Want My Name showed it to me as taken when it wasn’t. WTF, folks? Going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s a bug.

Folks, for years: We have a problem called Surveillance Capitalism, it’s a systemic problem arising from socio-economic factors…

Ex-Googler: Hmm, this problem, very exotic… what shall I call it without criticising either surveillance or capitalism? Time well spent?

Folks: SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM! It’s the feedback loop between accumulation of information (surveillance) and accumulation of wealth (capitalism)

Ex-Googler: …human downgrading?

🤔

https://www.wired.com/story/tristan-harris-tech-is-downgrading-humans-time-to-fight-back/

The Internet belongs to us all and yet our names are owned/controlled by commercial entities. Isn’t it time to put an end to this ridiculous rent seeking for what are essentially rows in a database? @OpenNIC has a free/open alternative. We should mandate all browsers support it.

#FreeTheDomain

Bhavani Esapathi (https://twitter.com/@bhaesa) is my friend and a dear, wonderful person who has been battling autoimmune disease for as long as I’ve known her and doing so while helping others. Now the Tories want to hand her a death sentence and deport her. We cannot let this happen.

Read about her ordeal:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-immigration-deportation-woman-coma-home-office-crohns-disease-bhavani-espathi-a8903271.html

Sign/support this petition and help save her life:

https://www.change.org/p/home-office-grant-bhavani-esapathi-a-visa-so-she-can-live

Tell your friends, call your elected representatives, make some noise.

#SaveBhavani

Sharing more of the pie does not solve the problem, if the pie is the problem. @aral writes about regulating surveillance capitalism.

https://ar.al/2019/05/11/the-dos-and-donts-of-tech-regulation/

@Shamar

Persino @aral, sul suo blog, l'altro ieri ha scritto che l'introduzione di una digital tax sarebbe una delle armi fondamentali per andare a colpire il capitalismo di sorveglianza.

Secondo me ha ragione. Le tasse sono uno dei modi in cui lo Stato regola un fenomeno, e la regolazione è nemica del capitalismo.

https://ar.al/2019/05/11/the-dos-and-donts-of-tech-regulation/

@wikimediaitalia

Bhavani Esapathi (https://twitter.com/@bhaesa) is my friend and a dear, wonderful person who has been battling autoimmune disease for as long as I’ve known her and doing so while helping others. Now the Tories want to hand her a death sentence and deport her. We cannot let this happen.

Read about her ordeal:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-immigration-deportation-woman-coma-home-office-crohns-disease-bhavani-espathi-a8903271.html

Sign/support this petition and help save her life:

https://www.change.org/p/home-office-grant-bhavani-esapathi-a-visa-so-she-can-live

Tell your friends, call your elected representatives, make some noise.

#SaveBhavani

@aral 👋I wrote a long article on surveillance capitalism and your work. It's in French, but maybe you'd be interested 🙃

https://orelauwen.com/internet-la-surveillance-pour-tous/

@aral
Loving this:
https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/