Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? via @GeoffWozniak
Summary: Mike Godwin, an internet lawyer who first joined EFF in 1990 and worked for the Wikimedia Foundation, gives his take about the nexus of internet freedom of speech, censorship, large corporations and governments - from the 1990s to 2020 - giving autobiographical narrative for context. He addresses one journalist's popular opinion that there is "too much freedom of speech" on the Internet and that more regulation and control is needed. He argues for more freedom of speech and expression on the Internet without offering any more concrete solutions than Wikipedia.
my response to "Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It?"
@theruran If your biggest problem with Facebook and Google is how cozy they are with USG, you are not scared enough of them, not by a long shot. They both have already transcended subservience to national governments. So far, they succeeded in nudging US democracy towards a designation as flawed, and there is no reason to expect them to stop there and not fully supersede nation states with a corporate hierarchy.
my response to "Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It?" Cf this from twitter
@angdraug @theruran
There are right now two talks on, civil society not invited
https://twitter.com/MichaelWestBiz/status/1229293222062514176
Big tech lobbies against national regulation in #WTO talks while public interest groups don't get a look in. Story by Sophie Hardefeldt @AFTINET #auspol https://www.michaelwest.com.au/regulatory-chill-tech-giants-lobby-negotiators-at-secret-swiss-talks-to-subvert-national-regulators/
my response to "Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It?" Cf this from twitter
@tqft @theruran I don't know how factual this is, but the local presence requirement is criminally stupid. I don't want Russia and China to store my data, and I want even less to have to report my citizenship to every site I use. This is a poison pill that will make the rest of the regulation much easier to dismiss.
my response to "Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It?"
@theruran Think Malka Older's Infomocracy, minus even a pretense of a democracy, just the Emperor Mark Zuckerberg Augustus.