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This is where the labor issues of new media dovetail with those of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Amazon's planned worker chat app, "Shout Outs," bans a long list of worker-friendly words, including "union," "harassment," "grievance," and "injustice."
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Everybody says that there is no censorship on the internet, or at least only in part. But that is not true. Online censorship is applied through the excess of banal content that distracts people from serious or collective issues.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
maybe here, we do have an aesthetic counter to the wallflower non-style of Big Tech: a raging messy semiotic meltdown of radicalizing (if absurdist) meme culture where the only ideological no-go zone is the liberal center. Key here is that most of this activity is happening under the guise of avatars, pseudonyms, and collectively run social media a
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What happens when the Internet becomes a never-ending firehose of malicious garbage?
This is what happens: You start logging off the Internet....
... and logging in to more curated, closed communities.
No more talking to fake people on Twitter or Facebook. No more using Google for search.
Instead, everything happens in closed Slack or Discord commu
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