It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
Tucson, AZ
Joined September 2006
- Tweets 64,757
- Following 13,801
- Followers 26,057
- Likes 36,165
It is social media networks that I personally point the finger to as being the most problematic and separated from internet and web ideals because they are in fact walled Gardens. If Government, predatory capitalism, special interest groups will not change these things who will?
1
1
3
So what do we do? It's not exactly easy to reject the reality that social networking has become a part of our very existence. Children and adults now care more about social networks in riding a bike or being in nature or spending non-online time with F2F friends and family.
1
3
Did we ask for this no we did not as people but we accepted it when we checked that terms of service and we accept it because we stay and I myself don't want to go not because I have jakt to the model because I reject this model but I don't want to lose my connection to you.
1
4
Well Zuckerberg and others have been need to testify by government the problem is often that governments do not have the technical understanding or the desire to stop special interest groups from manipulating the money for the benefit of corporate government and private factions.
1
4
So who is responsible for that on social networks well the first and foremost goal of a social media company is profiteering. They want to make money and it is not the domain of freedom or open or multi-stakeholder in fact the opposite. Single or small stakeholder models.
1
3
Social media Networks have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to involve themselves in manipulation of the masses through targeted or subversive advertising. There are Bots spreading misinformation as well as humans. The separatism via binary arguments cause harm even death.
1
1
3
When a social network terms of service has agreed to typically speaking our content is no longer ours but belongs to the network. Freedom of speech? If you've ever been in Facebook or Twitter jail you know it doesn't exist on those platforms. But it gets much darker.
1
3
But there are very serious problems with social networks and the first begins the moment we click a terms of service agreement. Have people really read those? They are written in boring long legalese so we tend not to. We go right for the check box without Clarity of terms.
1
3
The much more difficult thing to fix and where I believe the darkest of problems that is in the mix now is the social media and social network models. We want connection to family and friends and colleagues. Here I am despite concern because of exactly the social relationships.
1
2
His ideas have Merit but I don't know that they are sustainable and we have to think a lot more about this as he is doing and as are others. Putting content control back into our hands and securing our layers of the World Wide Web are if you'll forgive the pun truly solid ideas.
2
2
Solid is an interesting idea and it doesn't appear that it is a complete solution. Essentially your content would be in a pod protected by encryption with a private and public key only the individual has control of. Add to that a secure end-to-end connection like SSL but not SSL.
1
2
A lesser human might have given up and I think for a while he did but instead of giving up he began to think about ways we can fix it he's suggested a Magna Carta for the web he has developed a technology called solid which puts control of our content back into our own hands.
1
2
The World Wide Web was by design meant to be open free accessible and not have singular stakeholders either. Sir Tim berners-lee is an optimist who believed that humans rise to their best. Sadly he has seen the web given freelee so misused it has caused him grave concern.
1
1
3
So while the internet is an international network of connected computers it is not free and it is not open and it is not accessible and often single stakeholder although less so perhaps then other layers of our internet web technology stack if you will.
1
2
So the fact that so many nations are not part of that agreement including the USA has by definition made the internet itself not a global free and open technology. This is a tragedy in my eyes and should be course corrected somehow. I doubt it will at least in my lifetime.
1
3
UNESCO is like a working group under the United Nations concerned with education equality. The USA has left that group more than once. Why? Because of alliance with Israel and it's agenda of genocide against Palestinians. The USA has no obligation to follow ROAM principles.
1
3
ROAM principles are the guidelines that keep the internet open accessible and do not allow single stakeholders such as a government or Corporation or individual. I said to someone in another conversation the u.s. is not a member of UNESCO. They argued that we are part of the UN.
1
2
The internet as many are aware emerge from projects by the US Military. It was Vince Cerf and Al Gore who facilitated the internet as a global, open, free platform unaffiliated with government or singular agency. Under UNESCO the internet ROAM principles apply in member nations.
1
2
The other evening in a presentation I was asked what do we do about the very bad things that are happening on the internet? What do we do about the digital divide? I think we have to break this down first to the rules of internet web and Beyond and what their definitions are.
1
6