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posted by takyon on Monday December 10 2018, @04:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the giant-leap dept.

Aral Balkan has a blog post about taking small steps to end surveillance capitalism. In particular he focuses on the need for federated services. He points out that the move to re-decentralize the WWW is difficult and needs to start at the beginning, using a comparison of Apple's original computers to their latest generation of tablets as an illustration.

Five years ago, when I decided to devote myself to tackling the problem of surveillance capitalism, it was clear what we needed: convenient and beautiful ethical everyday things that provide seamless experiences1 on fully free-as-in-freedom stacks.

This is as true today as it was then and it will remain so. The only way to compete with unethical products built by organisations that have control over hardware + software + services is to create ethical organisations that have control over hardware + software + services and thus have at least the possibility to craft competitive experiences. We remove our eyes from this goal at our peril.

Related: Tim Berners-Lee Launches Inrupt, Aims to Create a Decentralized Web


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @03:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @03:37AM (#772740)

    Lot of moral prose, and some java. They've got some source on git-whatever. Not going to read the source to figure out what they are up to, and poking around the websites sure didn't tell me what they were up to. Choosing Java: strike 1. Not have a draft on the actual spec within one link of the top, strike 2. Babbling on for 3 A4 pages without actually talking about what you're doing: Strike 3.

    Hey good luck on whatever you're doing. And I tried, but I still have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @10:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @10:22AM (#772807)

    There is a 1 in the summary that doesn't point anywhere.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @11:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @11:02AM (#772815)

    Adopt I2P, or FreeNet.

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