Antti 'Jogi' Poikola @apoikola@mastodon.social
mydata.org mydata2018.org
Our work with the City of Ghent on our Indienet project (https://indienet.info) gets a shout out in this month’s New Scientist, in Jacob Aron’s article titled “Stop being the product.”
“On the face of it, [it] sounds a lot like the old web, where people created simple pages hosted on computers they controlled. The crucial difference is that it used to be difficult to put things online without technical know-how – which is partly why easy-to-use services like Facebook are popular.”
You might've gotten the opposite impression from the #Zuckerberg hearing, but the problem here wasn't that users were sucking Facebook's data out of Facebook’s systems.
The problem is that Facebook sucked that data from us.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/too-big-let-others-fail-us-how-mark-zuckerberg-blamed-facebooks-problems-openness
