howdy, On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:00:08PM -0500, Steven Clift wrote: > Yes, very independent. Is Facebook more evil than Twitter in your view??
i must admit i failed at the twitter thing. and i feel extremely uncomfortable. > But here is my take - after 20 years of promoting and using open > source to feed my Democracies Online Newswire - http://dowire.org - > http://e-democracy.org/groupserver - IF we want to connect to the next > generation of emerging wired elected officials we must reach them > where they are online. > > In MN we have 30 something new elected officials essentially > "friending" their way to office. i think this is very bad. as facebook is not a neutral player, for example max schrems book about facebooks privacy violations was blocked by facebook: https://twitter.com/maxschrems/status/474145647147646976 the filterbubble, not a good thing either for democracy. being vendor locked-in into a dominant market player that is directly under the influence of a state level actor cannot be considered something positive. s -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
