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<![endif]--> <table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="color:#222;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="border-collapse:separate;"><tr><td valign="top"><![endif]--> <div dir="ltr"><div>Silicon Valley's typical startup model as codified in Peter Thiel's From Zero to One is to become as large a monopoly as possible as quickly as possible. Mainstream founders and investors like this model because it enables them to maximize the return on their sweat equity and capital investment. By extension, founders and investors tend to eschew privacy, security, free speech, and other values about which we care because there are no templates for their ready adoption that will provide a clear benefit at minimal cost. Consumers and users on the whole care about such values, however, so founders and investors tend to pay at best symbolic lip service to these values in an attempt to monetize them. </div><div><br></div><div>As a result, Liberationtech startups tend to attract only niche founders and investors who are willing to compromise on profit maximization to advance the public good. Because Liberationtech startups try to advance the public good, they also tend not to pursue monopoly status. For these reasons, Liberationtech startups tend to raise less money, leaving them with less capital to invest in sales and marketing, meaning fewer consumers and users and thus slower growth, in turn leaving them in a weaker position vis-a-vis their non-Liberationtech Silicon Valley competitors on the way to monopoly status. </div><div><br></div><div>This is a wicked problem, one that by definition is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.</div><div><br></div><div><div data-from-addr="" content="mixmax-signature"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;background:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cerebri-sans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;table-layout:fixed;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><tbody><tr><td cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" 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target="_blank">dss@socialinformatics.org</a></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <u></u> <p><br></p><p><br></p><p>> On 15 Jun 2020, at 17:04, Klein, Hans K <hans@gatech.edu> wrote:</p><p>> </p><p>> Again, the key questions are:</p><p>> - Is it possible to coordinate/control information dissemination? If so, how?</p><p>> - Is that actually occurring?</p><p><br></p><p>The major platforms are all censoring. FaceBook is probably the worst of these. It also is promoting violence via its engagement algorithms. Twitter is probably the best of them now. </p><p><br></p><p>There are independent media like The Intercept, Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, etc. </p><p><br></p><p>Podcasts offer direct info from educational institutions, political groups, musicians, etc. </p><p><br></p><p>Self-hosting is likely the future, but it doesn’t have much reach yet:</p><p> </p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>There are mesh networking initiatives that also want to free transmission from the Internet, etc.:</p><p><br></p><p>Anadiotis, G. (2018 October 25). Manyverse and Scuttlebutt: A human-centric technology stack for social applications. ZD-Net</p><p>https://www.zdnet.com/article/manyverse-and-scuttlebutt-a-human-centric-technology-stack-for-social-applications/</p><p><br></p><p>Siri, S. (2020). Democracy in the Age of Cryptography. Unchained, Ep.159.</p><p>https://unchainedpodcast.com/democracy-in-the-age-of-cryptography/</p><p><br></p><p>Staltz, A. (2017, 18 Dec.). A plan to rescue the web from the internet.</p><p>https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html</p><p><br></p><p>Staltz, A. (2018, 4/19). Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social platform. In the Mesh.</p><p>https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>However, none of these alternatives have been widely enough adopted to challenge the big players. Most big players are able to provide “free” access, due to making losses at the start and then becoming monopoly players attracting advertisers. Some kind of crypto-currency financing is necessary for independent media to compete. This example does it for the transmission costs:</p><p><br></p><p>https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-438-bootstrapping-mobile-mesh-networks-with-bitcoin-lightning</p><p><br></p><p>There are a number of crypto-payments to publisher schemes. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>dss</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics</p><p>Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark</p><p>dss@socialinformatics.org Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>-- </p><p>Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing lt-owner@lists.liberationtech.org.</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>