hehe, full data portability seems impossible until a symmetrical network protocol arises, but it seems a good pretext to may people think about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0sX6j5D_c O Olivier Auber On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Olivier > > About upcoming data portability ? > > https://euobserver.com/digital/137977 > > " As of 25 May 2018, EU citizens will have a new legal right that will > help them switch digital services. > It is called the right to data portability. " > > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 18:50 olivier auber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of >> Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. >> >> From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) >> >> Dear Yann >> >> as a researcher as you are too, but in another area, that is Natural >> Intelligence (NI), I would like to address you publicly to let you know >> that I'm leaving Facebook, probably definitely. >> >> The reason is simple. Facebook is obviously a powerful tool of >> communication. Many researchers I work with have become accustomed to using >> it without asking too much questions for their informal exchanges. The >> conversations that are conducted there are sometimes futile, but often also >> of the greatest interest. >> >> But I realize that these conversations, in a way, no longer belong to us >> when they are conducted on Facebook! >> >> The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to >> bring with you a summary archive. But this archive does not contain: >> >> - links included in your personal posts (just that!) >> - discussions following your personal posts. >> - Comments left on other posts >> - the links of posts that you republish. >> - your address book (you get the names, not the mails or other >> coordinates theoretically shared with you) >> >> In short, it's a real hostage taking! >> >> In other words, Facebook looks like a sort of Far West saloon in which >> alcohol would be free. If you go in, not to drink, but to simply chat with >> your friends, you realize when you go out that your conversations and your >> address book no longer belong to you. They belong to the boss of the >> saloon! To top it off, the boss forbids you to say goodbye one by one to >> your friends and retrieve their details. Personal messages are indeed >> blocked after a few hundred! >> >> In short, by this open letter, I wish to alert my colleagues and more >> generally all professional or independent intellectual workers. Do not post >> your ideas on Facebook! Do not lead any interesting conversation on >> Facebook! Instead, choose to chat on free distributed social networks such >> as Diaspora or Mastodon. Choose shared intelligence platforms like >> Seenthis. In particular, my friends, independent researchers or independent >> artists, do not wait until Mark Zuckerberg, enriched to the extreme by your >> free work, wants to pay you a basic income. He has no legitimacy to do >> that! Instead, experiment with distributed free money creation networks >> such as Duniter. >> >> Dear Yann, to conclude, I do not doubt that thanks to your talent and >> that of the researchers you have gathered, Facebook can one day realize the >> most beautiful Artificial Intelligence. On this day, however, by behaving >> like this, Facebook is likely to be emptied of its users. Gone! >> >> Cheers >> >> Olivier Auber >> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission >> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, >> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets >> # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > >
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