By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...
In the end, open communication platforms should be treated as what they truly are: infrastructure, that is too important to be managed by corporate hands.
It can be built by competing corps and maintained by competing corps. But management has to be kept in neutral hands (=financed by our taxes and overseen by some rotating government body - but otherwise kept away from corpo and gov influence). So pretty much what should be standard for housing, water, electricity, insurance, banks, health care, mail, landlines, cable and some important media.
Alas, instead all of the above is getting privatized to the max - so it’s looking pretty bleak for any major communication platforms.
In some parts that’s already the case with groups like IANA and ICANN, but that’s only going so far as keeping things orderly and functioning. I don’t see actual compute able to be any more democratized than it is really though with the advent of cloud hosting providers. It’s hard enough maintaing a major infrastructure when it’s done with a simple goal of availability much less if it had some sort of equal access mandate like most things done at a national level.
In the end, open communication platforms should be treated as what they truly are: infrastructure, that is too important to be managed by corporate hands.
It can be built by competing corps and maintained by competing corps. But management has to be kept in neutral hands (=financed by our taxes and overseen by some rotating government body - but otherwise kept away from corpo and gov influence). So pretty much what should be standard for housing, water, electricity, insurance, banks, health care, mail, landlines, cable and some important media.
Alas, instead all of the above is getting privatized to the max - so it’s looking pretty bleak for any major communication platforms.
But a man can dream…
In some parts that’s already the case with groups like IANA and ICANN, but that’s only going so far as keeping things orderly and functioning. I don’t see actual compute able to be any more democratized than it is really though with the advent of cloud hosting providers. It’s hard enough maintaing a major infrastructure when it’s done with a simple goal of availability much less if it had some sort of equal access mandate like most things done at a national level.