Not partnering with trillion-dollar, people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy-destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.
#SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech
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bojkotiMalbona
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Even more directly projects that claim to work on privacy missions cannot resist littering their Cloudflared website with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other garbage antithetical to their mission.
I can understand to some extent them having a presence in those shitty walled gardens for outreach to those misled audiences, but when they proactively link into those shitholes from their public-facing website, it’s obviously quite disgusting.
RMS gives good guidance in this scenario:
https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html
The links should go one-way: from the walled-garden to the free world.
Facebook Presence
stallman.orgKaryl :godot: :procreate:
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Karyl :godot: :procreate: • • •Every time Meta is discussed with me, I try to bring up their track record:
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data#.upw3jdyR8
etc etc.
Their amoral and dangerous behaviour has to be the starting point for any discussion on working with them. Are people comfortable working with a company cited in reports on multiple separate massacres and genocides? A company that knew in advance people might get killed and said they would still carry on regardless?
Force Meta supporters/collaborators to look at the elephant in the room, don't let them turn their eyes away.
Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)Aral Balkan
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •@FediThing @paintedsky Here’s another, very recent one, for your list:
https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta
#Meta #Project2025 #farRight #fascism #SocialWebFoundation #SWF #mastodon #pixelfed #etc #theCompanyYouKeep
The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials
The New Republichamish campbell
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The problem that #SocialWebFoundation are not addressing https://hamishcampbell.com/opening-a-space-to-build-alternatives-omn/ is about change and challenge, the #NGO path they take is missing this, they do it on purpose to keep a seat at the table, which could be useful, but rarely turn out to be.
This can be fixed by https://hamishcampbell.com/tag/openprocess/ I understand this is a VERY UNCOMFORTABLE path for everyone, but it will work if backed up by https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=activism what do you think we can do to start this conversation?
openprocess – Hamish Campbell
hamishcampbell.comFediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to hamish campbell • • •@hamishcampbell
There seems to be an attitude that once a common good develops to a certain point, it should be handed over to for-profits to exploit, that it must not continue as a common good.
I don't understand why so many people just go along with this without questioning it.
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Professor_Stevens
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •This is an inversion of the constitutional American principle that inventors should have exclusive rights to their useful inventions only for limited times. After that, anyone can use those inventions. That's why patents expire. A patent insures an inventor's exclusive rights. But, to get a patent, the inventor has to completely explain how to duplicate the invention, and the patent is a public document.
unexpectedteapot
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •kritikaPensulo
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Here’s an interesting example. This is a government agency tasked with defending digital rights in #Belgium:
https://www.mediateurtelecom.be/article-rapport-annuel-2023/
As you can see, they don’t merely have a link to their FB account. They actually direct the public to go to #Facebook and #MS #LinkedIn to get /public/ information (that is, info intended for the general public). I am blocked from the publications on that page because I do not have FB or LinkedIn.
WTF.
public money → public agency → private #walledgarden.
Rapport annuel 2023 du service de médiation télécommunications
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M1k3yv2
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to M1k3yv2 • • •@M1k3yv2 Goodness, those Meta folks must be really foolish, huh? Looks like they’re stepping straight into our trap.
M1k3yv2
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to M1k3yv2 • • •@M1k3yv2 Shush, they might be listening… this could foil our ingenuous plan.
🤫
#sic
M1k3yv2
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
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