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For those who don't know what their goals are: Desirable properties of the People-centered Internet: 1. Complete universal Internet coverage that enables f
by codemac 10y ago
For those who don't know what their goals are:
Desirable properties of the People-centered Internet:
1. Complete universal Internet coverage that enables functionality that is otherwise unreachable or ineffective
2. The Internet is affordable, open, available and accessible to all
3. Fosters digital literacy, local content in local language to achieve widespread usage and increased value to people, families, communities and countries
4. The system achieves a level of trust that meets the users’ expectations of affordability, privacy, safety
5. The quantity and quality of educational and information services is increasingly available to families and communities
6. Anyone can contribute to improvement of the utility of the global Internet.
7. Personal information in the digital environment is protected by law and controlled by the individual
http://peoplecenteredinternet.org/ http://peoplecenteredinternet.org/
- gue5t 10y agoThere won't be any ads. This may not have been explicitly listed, but a user-centric communication medium does not perpetrate psychological warfare against its users and reward distracting them, stalking and profiling them, or exploiting their naïvete. It empowers them by giving them access to information on their terms. This is definitional.
- krapp 10y agoIf users choose to advertise, a user-centric communication medium would allow them to do so. To ban advertisements outright would be censorship.
- eevilspock 10y agoHe didn't say "ban" much less "ban outright", did he? The list is "desirable properties". I agree with his characterization of advertising, and that to be "people centric", there would be no ads by definition. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773
- krapp 10y agoI'm not a huge fan of advertising on the web, I think it's doomed to failure. But I disagree that it's desirable to be rid of advertising. And I only say that because I believe freedom of expression - and that includes commercial expression - is sacrosanct. In my opinion, a truly "people centric" platform allows my right to serve whatever I want (within the bounds of the law) to supercede anyone else's personal ethics.
- eevilspock 10y agoJust because freedom allows you to say most anything doesn't mean all those things are consistent with freedom. One can protect the KKK's right to free speech while simultaneously saying that their speech is undesirable and inconsistent with freedom. The same principle applies to "people centric". I think you keep inserting "ban" into what you're responding to when no one is saying that. Try rereading the article and the parent comments without that bias.
- Singletoned 10y agoI agree that advertising at the moment is an anti-feature, but it is at least theoretically possible that an advert could be of benefit to a user. If advertising were to reach the quality and targettedness that they were telling you about things you genuinely wanted, it would be a useful service. Kind of like advertising as a recommendation engine. That would be quite people centric. I don't think we will get there though.
- nhebb 10y agoThanks for the summary. I tried reading the linked page, the articles, and the home site, but there's a certain type of language that I have trouble wading through. My eyes glossed over at all the platitudes and bureaucrat-speak. The goals sound admirable, and I hope they succeed. However, I think their message would be improved by getting to the point of what they plan to do, how they plan to do it, and how it will be different / better than the internet we know today.
- tomgp 10y agoAgreed, the writing here is terrible; from the very first sentence... "to vector Internet evolution" urgh!