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Laws of the Internet:
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Most importantly, I’d like – in some small way – to encourage people to consider who they trust, how they should pay for the internet, and whether they are prepared to keep providing their own data, the totality of their online lives, to private companies – like an endless font, like an endlessly spouting oil well.
Damian Bradfield • The Trust Manifesto: What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet
1. “Mr.Wolf for online security”
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 1
Civic hackers began to scrape government websites (usually with the suffix gov[dot]tw) and build alternative formats for data display and interaction for the same website, hosting them at g0v.tw. These “forked” versions of government websites often ended up being more popular, leading some government ministers, like Simon Chang to begin “merging” t... See more
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the... See more