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On January 15th, 2018, World Socialist Web Site reported that users are unable to share a promotional video for a January 16th online meeting, "Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship."
Facebook has blocked users from sharing a social media video promoting the January 16 online meeting "Organizing resistance to Internet censorship," featuring World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. The initial post of the video, uploaded Friday, cannot be shared by any user. Those who attempt to do so receive an error message that seems to imply a technical failure.
Users reported, however, that upon clicking "If you think you're seeing this message by mistake, please let us know," they were presented with a notice that clearly indicates the content had been blocked in the name of keeping Facebook "safe."
WSWS published an open letter about internet censorship and net neutrality on November 25. The FCC repealed net neutrality rules on December 14, 2017.
In this AC's opinion, Facebook is certainly within their rights to refuse to host any content for any reasons they choose. However, for many people, Facebook is the internet.
Should we worry about entrenched services such as Facebook and Google using their positions to suppress information? Does the presence or absence of net neutrality change one's analysis of the situation?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:49AM (1 child)
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Your hyperbole has fallen flat (as usual).
just as Mondragon (yes, I know, there are other successful cooperative[s]
Had you not had your head stuck up a dark orifice so many times, you would have noticed the DOZENS of times that I have mentioned the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of worker-owned co-ops in northern Italy.
I've also mentioned The Marcora Law [google.com] which seeds that.
Boston and Quebec are getting to be co-op hotspots.
Madison, WI has been for some time.
I'm expecting Oakland to really ignite any day now.
There are numerous places all over the globe with great ideas. [google.com]
Meanwhile, USA.gov (and UK.gov and AU.gov) are stuck on stupid with Oligarchy and NIH.
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replicators and teleporters [...] 3D printers
Who is building them and fixing them?
Where do the inputs come from?
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:47AM
(note: mate, I expect better from you than foul language. Please behave and we can continue to have a dialog. Otherwise, I'll relegate you in my personal "don't care" category.
Pay attention to my posts, those that aren't grinning at least, and see that I value cooperation more than competition, the social more than the private, etc. But I'm old enough to know that nothing is perfect and those I already mentioned here aren't sufficient)
Would you be so kind to compare the number of people involved into coops with the number of people that are not?
Because you must admit that "thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands" could mean just as low as 8000 people or even less (if the same person is part of more than one coop).
Mate, I never said that coop-style economy is impossible. Nor did I say coops are shit.
I only said that coops aren't the guaranteeing a success and optimality by themselves. There's something more that need to get into their chemistry than the simple "we are a coop, wooohoo, now we're set for life".
Pretty much the same apply to the direct democracy in Switzerland - you simply don't wave a fairy wand and coops are magically successful.
I'll let the reader imagine what else is necessary - (I hate answers and The Truth, even when they are my answers and my truth, because they have the tendency to kill the thinking. You can imagine my feelings about the answers and "The Truth" of others)
Don't know about other places, but the community and cooperation spirit is not as dead as the rumors are exagerating.
First of all, I wasn't depicting a reality, I only set up a mindframe (this is why "If you like a SciFi projection") in which "ownership of production means may become irrelevant". In this context (pure speculative), here are the answers:
- presumably, building and fixing is done by whoever is qualified to do it and is trusted by those around it that it will do it properly. Potentially even a specialized maintenance robot may do it.
It's not like, in a post-scarcity world with replicators and teleporters, a part which is required for repair/maintenance cannot be asked for someone that operates another replicator (and transported by teleport).
- Where the inputs come from? Pure energy, available at so low cost in the post-scarcity world that it wouldn't matter. Picard ordering a cup of tea from the replicator doesn't seem to care too much about E=mc2
Just in case you really don't know about the "maker movement", pay a visit to reprap.org [reprap.org]. It's not the only site, you'll be able to find many other sites supporting the makers (even if just by presenting the designs or knowhow).
Yes, nobody is making (yet) stepper motors and what not at home, but:
1. they are cheap nowadays, much cheaper than the computers were at the beginning of the open-source movement. And don't tell me that you scorn open-source movement because it uses paid-for and personal computers
2. it's a start (has been quite a long time ago).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford