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Earlier this year, I spoke with the excellent folks at
@logic_magazine
about my thoughts on the decentralized web, digital commons, and solidarity economics, and how we created
@COMPOSTmag
out of the intersections of these movements.
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"This painting is not available in your country." // new artwork for the
@EFF
office.
http://t.co/ewGjnqOHil
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when Tesla can “text some code” to your car—the wealthy get faster cars, and the poor…
http://t.co/TuWeuJzjxL
http://t.co/ifNLIwInRR
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This is what the final TPP text looks like printed, double-sided.
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Incredible — Owners of 4% of Twitter shares voted in favor of the company exploring democratic user ownership today.
#platformcoop
WE GOT FOUR PERCENT.
🙌
That means we can, and very likely will, resubmit a better shareholder resolution next year to democratize Twitter.
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Elizabeth Warren wants to take down TurboTax, which lobbies US Congress to keep tax prep confusing for their profit:
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manning the food station at SFO for
#MuslimBan
protest. chips, fruit, water, a phone charging station + TONS of pizza
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Hi
@JohnLegere
, I'm an
@EFF
policy analyst AND paying member bc users and their rights need protection from companies like yours
#WeAreEFF
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Every time Pres Obama says “America" in this pro-TPP op-ed, what he really means is US corporations:
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Amazing Obama can talk about reigning in big banks and big oil “making their own rules” while pushing for the corporate-driven TPP
#SOTU
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Govt agencies shouldn't be able to send DMCA takedowns at all. Everything they publish should be public domain.
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TPP is, was, a terrible trade deal for human rights and the environment. Trump isn't withdrawing from it for either of these reasons.
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Hey, it’s my first byline! I wrote a long-form review of
@zeynep
’s brilliant new book for
@DemJournal
:
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I have an announcement: today is my last day with EFF. In April, I'm joining
@Shareable
to campaign for coops and commons-based enterprises.
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If only this pro-democracy Obama was around when his trade officers were secretly negotiating pro-corporate TPP w/ no public oversight
#SOTU
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Bruce Schneier on Sony hack: No it’s not terrorism, it’s not an act of war, and we don’t know it’s North Korea.
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Today we release
@COMPOSTmag
's first issue, Fertile Grounds. 🪱✨
We're a magazine about the digital commons that publishes across the World Wide Web and Decentralized Web. Our first issue contains eight creative pieces and kaoani-inspired animated GIFs.
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Imagine what Twitter would look like if it were a co-op, owned and democratically managed by its users:
#CoopMonth
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Noam Chomsky calls
#TPP
an assault on working people, intended to maximize corporate "profit and domination."
http://t.co/6TwA8REKbl
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By tracking every search, website + app we use, ad companies may exploit all our desires + insecurities. Horrifying.
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Can you imagine if protest sites are deemed “sensitive”? Or any type of political gathering for that matter.
Patents aren't products, but Apple has a new one on disabling pics in "sensitive" locations
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Met with
@NancyPelosi
's district office with EFF members today—urged her to strongly oppose the TPP Fast Track bill
http://t.co/Thb5oAWZHa
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Locking the Web open with decentralizing tech and platform co-ops: some reflections on the
#DWebSummit
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Thank you
@wikileaks
for publishing the
#TPP
text, and a HUGE thank you to the anonymous person who released it to them. You are a hero.
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if he made it his business & rallied his fan base, public interest © reform treaties might pass in a matter of months, not years.
Hey world
International Copyright laws are SO not my job but I promise you I'm running around trying to get you this
#HamiltonMixtape
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I’m proud to be part of the core organizing team behind
#DWebCamp
, an event to put many radical network builders in one place and imagine what kind of networked future we’d like to build for ourselves and our communities.
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"Hands up, don't shoot"
#hungerforjusticesf
rally on Market St. in front of the Twitter building.
#FireChiefSuhr
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If TPP ends up w/ retroactive 20-yr © term extension, DRM unlocking ban, extreme trade secret rules, etc—EFF will do everything to kill it.
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EFF’s collecting DRM horror stories about ebooks, games, etc. to petition the gov’t on fair labelling. Submit here:
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amazing irony that the video of our
#RightsCon
panel on TPP and digital rights gets silenced. thanks Content ID 🖕🏼
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Wow at least 1,000 supporters for the Bradley Manning contingent at
#sfpride
parade! ^_^ cc:
@SaveBradley
http://t.co/xKFXqBDCYV
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Twitter as a co-op?
@Recode
on our campaign for shareholders to seriously consider user ownership of this platform:
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One of my college friends, Sara Hoda, was a victim of the Oakland fire. She was one of the creative & caring people I knew. rip Sara. 🌹
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Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay for its copyright lobbyists: wow…just wow
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This interview of
@alannairving
by
@divyasiddarth
on
@opencollect
's plants to exit to community is an excellent read for those interested in governance.
The fact there's such a principled effort towards community platform control is awe-inspiring 🌼
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Felt like you missed what's happening to Brazil's democracy? This is a good TL;DR thread to read then.
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San Francisco makes a guerrilla bike lane permanent: Nice lil example of people solving a problem when govt fails to
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Tech monopolies give rise to surveillance capitalism. One way to resist is to support community broadband efforts:
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@internetowners
@DemJournal
@zeynep
My review of Twitter & Teargas, in which I point to platform co-ops as a viable alt to capitalist digital platforms:
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Got my hands on a pre-release copy of the book I co-edited with Shareable, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” !
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Easily 1000+ people out here for the TPP protest in DC tonight.
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Too bad they didn’t have the entire TPP text on the table where they signed it. It would’ve looked ridiculous:
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Over 550 labor, environmental, and community groups send letter to Congress opposing Fast Track legislation:
http://t.co/IPxzKBMWjL
#StopTPP
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So last week, I got back into the digital rights & trade work that I did with EFF for ~5 years. I quit 2 years ago to pursue other things.
But I was drawn back in to help
@burcuno
fight against the new & terrible ways this front has evolved. A thread.
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Cory is the staunchest defender of authors' interests against the content industry's corporate behemoths.
His kickstarter is raising funds for his audio book in resistance to Audible (aka Amazon)'s iron grip on the industry — support him+get copies of his next book!
*Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a
#PostCyberpunk
anti-finance finance
#thriller
; it's a major title for my publishers
@TorBooks
and
@HoZ_Books
, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that,
#Audible
will not sell the
#audiobook
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Facebook and OkCupid’s behavioral experiments on users weren’t just unethical, they were flat out illegal.
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btw if you feel like making a contribution please do not send more pizza—donate to
@CAIRNational
or
@CAIRCalifornia
instead!
#MuslimBan
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fuck this and fuck white supremacy. 😡
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The TPP state of play: how we defeat the largest trade deal in history my latest for EFF
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Great to meet fellow community mesh networkers from
@tomeshnet
at
#DWebSummit
with along with some of my crew from
@sudomesh
✊📡✨
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I don't want to live in fear that as an activist, anything I've said or done in my past could be someday used against me.
#TheDayWeFightBack
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FBI's “suicide letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the terrifying dangers of unchecked state surveillance:
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Twitter turning into a co-op is a long shot, but it’s about challenging pure profit motive of tech platforms & how that undermines users.
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Just got back from a week in Havana for
@cubaconference
! Met incredible ppl and learned so, so much. Write-up coming soon 🇨🇺✨
#DaleCubaConf
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Sanders calls Clinton’s trade record a “disaster,” that she only came out against TPP when polling forced her to:
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German non-profit creates a new open-source license for seeds, inspired by CC licenses: this is so cool.
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New Zealand river granted legal rights as a human being — way stronger case for this than corporate personhood:
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Really appreciate how this new article by
@kait_tiffany
maps the ideological differences, similarities, and linkages between DWeb and Web3.
Also stoked to see
@DigiDem
@COMPOSTmag
@dwebpress
mentioned as examples of what DWeb is about. :)
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PSA for journalists and academics: Do not conflate “objectivity” with status quo bias. 💁🏻
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Secretary General of
@CooperativesUK
writes in support of users owning & controlling Twitter as a co-op:
#BuyTwitter
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Excellent long-form comic explaining the many faulty justifications for free trade agreements like
#TPP
:
http://t.co/Pkp88ryGcD
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How do platform co-ops differ from corporate platforms? They prioritize transparency, privacy, diversity, and more:
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Apple rejects game about a Palestinian child in Gaza from its iOS App Store because of its "political statement”
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Good thread on why Facebook is awful (and why I left it 4 years ago)
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The most shocking thing about TPP text is it empowers companies to sue states over user protections they don’t like:
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Facing criticism from © holders, the
@chillingeffects
team has decided to censor its pages from search engines:
http://t.co/7VideLoBCP
(!)
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Good name for economic model in which services are paid for with your data: “surveillance capitalism” (via Yochai Benkler)
#platformcoop
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There are reports now that TPP negotiators won’t reconvene until November. That means TPP is in big trouble. (!)
Ministers at
#TPP
trade talks considering reconvening on sidelines of APEC in Nov after failing to reach agreement in Hawaii (
@lipporocks
)
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"Roses are red / Violets are blue / The rest of this poem / will cost $31.52”
#ElsevierValentines
: v
@ellenbroad
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Over one thousand Japanese citizens sue the government to halt their country's involvement in the TPP:
http://t.co/1SgCN5fqkv
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"If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.” —John Oliver on net neutrality, also aptly describes
#ISDS
#TTIPConsumer
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Japanese govt releases 45 pages of TPP negotiation docs, but they're entirely blacked out:
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And just like that, the TPP is dead. Gone. Dumped like a garish, obscenely decorated parade float into an ocean during a thunderstorm.
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People at
#MuslimBanprotest
kept throwing me $ for food—it was all donated tho so I said if they gave it’d all be fwded to
@CAIRNational
🕊💰
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Hey, have you been working on a decentralized Web project this year and have some exciting updates to share about it?
Sign up to give a lightning talk at this Thursday's DWeb Meetup ->
@GETDWeb
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Victory in the Senate against the TPP Fast Track bill! The fight isn’t over but a significant battle has been won.
BREAKING: Senate votes to block advance of TPP Fast Track bill amidst growing opposition to secretive anti-user trade deals.
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Whistleblower Mark Klein on why he released NSA docs in front of AT&T building where he worked.
#TheDayWeFightBack
http://t.co/Jn8MnF82h1
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Australian Senate orders
#TPP
text to be made public before the agreement is signed. // Great win for transparency!
http://t.co/xMlI7kOPU8
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Not only is DMCA used to silence fair uses of © works, it can even censor *commentary* on them:
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Photo of me speaking today at the TPP rally in SF about the trade deal's threats to digital rights and democracy.
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It's undeniable that "web3" has ideological connotations, in the same way "P2P" or "local-first" does. People align or disassociate with them to signal their beliefs on decentralization.
Maybe a benefit of "DWeb" is it's not hip, so not riddled with negative connotations. :)
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Today’s TPP signing is just a formality, it’s not the end. The best chance we have to stop it is in U.S. Congress:
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Concentrations of economic power are just as dangerous as concentrations of political power…because they’re the same thing.
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Without net neutrality, future incidents like
#Ferguson
could be made invisible, censored by algorithmic filtering.
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Law enforcement target Latino families in Stockton, CA for sharing and trading food thru a Facebook group:
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Elizabeth Warren gave a powerful speech urging her colleagues at the Senate to reject the TPP:
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Part of me wants to say TPP died for the wrong reasons but no…our activism delayed it so it couldn’t get ratified any earlier. We won this.
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SF Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to oppose Fast Track for TPP—citing threats to whistleblowers, the Internet, environment, etc
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TPP delegates agree to extend © to Life+70 years in the deal:
http://t.co/4Whus66FlQ
we need to stop US law from becoming the int’l standard
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Dear Obama, if you think our opposition to
#TPP
is based on “rumors,” why don’t you stop negotiating it in secret?
http://t.co/QYM92Q4yy3
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This sounds like Japan is resisting U.S. demands on a Life+70 year copyright term extension in the TPP.
In TPP talks, Japan is demanding that "wartime copyright extensions," whereby the victors of Pacific War were given privileges, be ended.
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Wow—Facebook preemptively censors Wikileaks from posting content, says it’s bc they may be “infected with a virus"
Dear
@Facebook
: stop censoring our Hillary Clinton email release. No, really. Stop it. There is no technical excuse.
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Interested in making art about the digital commons and building new digital infrastructure in the process? The magazine I've been working on just launched our call for pitches!
Please spread the word 🌞
We're thrilled to launch of our first Call for Pitches! We invite writers, artists, technologists, and organizers to submit creative pitches.
The theme is 🌱Fertile Grounds🌱
Check it out here:
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TPP is supported by Wall Street, by corporations, & opposed by all the public interest groups. This is a terrible day for US. —
@SenSanders
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Nestlé pays $0 to pump 400 gallons of water/min away from Lake Michigan to bottle up, while Flint residents still pay for poisoned tap water
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Dear Chelsea Manning, Happy Birthday.
http://t.co/dZvvqhrxLh
Messages from Edward Snowden, Slavoj Zizek, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, and more.
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Great news! Marrakesh Treaty will go into force, legalizing blind/visually impaired to circumvent © to access books:
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