Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-05-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sat, 5 May 2018, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Alan, Am 05/05/18 um 04:53 schrieb Alan Sondheim: Isnt that in the story of the Tower of Babel? Maybe we should read it again. or the opposite, every thing and every one speaking exactly the same digital terrain, the same protocols. even in one

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-05-05 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Alan, Am 05/05/18 um 04:53 schrieb Alan Sondheim: > >> Isnt that in the story of the Tower of Babel? Maybe we should read it >> again. > > or the opposite, every thing and every one speaking exactly the same > digital terrain, the same protocols. even in one of 'my' areas of > interest, non-wester

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-05-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Thu, 3 May 2018, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebast...@rolux.org wrote:: compare, and should not be compared. But it's not hate speech that worries me, it's the languages of desire, and what becomes of them once they enter the grid of two hundred million. (9) Google "Jessi

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-05-03 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebast...@rolux.org wrote:: > compare, and should not be compared. But it's not hate speech that > worries me, it's the languages of desire, and what becomes of them > once they enter the grid of two hundred million. (9) Google "Jessi > Slaughter", for starters Am 28/04/18 um

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters - Here's a current stat on Fb - As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. In the third quarter of 2

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-28 Thread sebastian
> On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters - > > Here's a current stat on Fb - > As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active > users. In the third quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook user

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters - Here's a current stat on Fb - As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. In the third quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook users had surpassed 1 billion, making it the first social network ev

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-24 Thread intertwilight
hi Jaromil, in effect we hadn't originally planned on doing this type of work explicitly but the situation in South Sudan, where we had begun a number of open tech related initiatives with local partners, steered us into it. A series of clear incidents where we could see probable causality be

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-24 Thread Jaromil
dear Stephen, Thanks for your message indeed. Knowing of your continued engagement in crisis areas I think your experience is really worthed a thread. On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, intertwilight wrote: > The issue of using social media in conflict situations is real (in > many different ways) and those

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-23 Thread intertwilight
ed to point out some tools and resources for conflict mitigation that are being used or developed. cheers, stephen please read - and how can this possibly be combatted? On 23.04.2018 10:13, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: 1. The New York Times is not a trustworthy source. 2. The title

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-23 Thread intertwilight
ed to point out some tools and resources for conflict mitigation that are being used or developed. cheers, stephen please read - and how can this possibly be combatted? On 23.04.2018 10:13, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: 1. The New York Times is not a trustworthy source. 2. The title

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-23 Thread sebastian
> please read - and how can this possibly be combatted? 1. The New York Times is not a trustworthy source. 2. The title image/animation serves a purpose. It's quite openly pornographic: exploits a subject, produces arousal, presents as objects some mysterious others, asks: h

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-23 Thread intertwilight
hi Alan, since 2012 we've been engaged in a number of open tech / open knowledge initiatives in the recently formed Republic of South Sudan. When clashes broke out in the capital Juba in December 2013 we saw how social media (not just FB) was being used to aggravate and fuel the conflict. Earl

please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/li