[liberationtech] They Used Smartphone Cameras to Record Police Brutality—and Change History

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Why isn't it seen as a sound business plan to honestly and transparently
meet everyone's concerns and fundraise among anyone who likes the idea?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 12:09 PM Yosem Companys <yosem at techlantis.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 11:43 AM, David Stodolsky dss at socialinformatics.org
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On 15 Jun 2020, at 17:04, Klein, Hans K <hans at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Again, the key questions are:
>>
>> > - Is it possible to coordinate/control information dissemination? If
>> so, how?
>>
>> > - Is that actually occurring?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> There are independent media like The Intercept, Democracy Now, Pacifica
>> Radio, etc.
>>
>>
>> Podcasts offer direct info from educational institutions, political
>> groups, musicians, etc.
>>
>>
>> Self-hosting is likely the future, but it doesn’t have much reach yet:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
>>
>>
>>
>> There are mesh networking initiatives that also want to free transmission
>> from the Internet, etc.:
>>
>>
>> Anadiotis, G. (2018 October 25). Manyverse and Scuttlebutt: A
>> human-centric technology stack for social applications. ZD-Net
>>
>>
>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/manyverse-and-scuttlebutt-a-human-centric-technology-stack-for-social-applications/
>>
>>
>> Siri, S. (2020). Democracy in the Age of Cryptography. Unchained, Ep.159.
>>
>> https://unchainedpodcast.com/democracy-in-the-age-of-cryptography/
>>
>>
>> Staltz, A. (2017, 18 Dec.). A plan to rescue the web from the internet.
>>
>> https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
>>
>>
>> Staltz, A. (2018, 4/19). Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social platform. In
>> the Mesh.
>>
>> https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-438-bootstrapping-mobile-mesh-networks-with-bitcoin-lightning
>>
>>
>> There are a number of crypto-payments to publisher schemes.
>>
>>
>>
>> dss
>>
>>
>>
>> David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics
>>
>> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
>>
>> dss at socialinformatics.org Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
>>
>>
>>
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