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The GAFAM poster campaign toolkit
- clipradiowallet 5y agoReminds me of FSF artwork(I like it!).
- danpalmer 5y agoThe arguments in this campaign feel poorly made, and with poor justifications. Some feel like they are made in bad faith. The problem is, maybe this is the best that can be done for a general audience? The media fails to get the nuance right, and it's clear that general audiences are unable to understand most nuanced arguments, so maybe something incorrect/bad-faith, but that argues in vaguely the right direction is better than not challenging these companies at all?
- rapnie 5y agoSocial cooling [0] also offers a different perspective that can be helpful with the broader public. At least it did very well here [1]. [0] https://www.socialcooling.com/ https://www.socialcooling.com/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
- danpalmer 5y agoThanks, this looks really good. It lays out the problem much more. Saying things like "Apple tracks you" isn't really useful because a) everything tracks you, and b) Apple are probably not using it to build a profile and that's the bad bit. Just to use one example. I like that this builds the intuition and critical thinking about tracking and profiling and its impacts, rather than making specific claims.
- mandmandam 5y agoThough I take your point, poster design doesn't allow (or aim for) a huge amount of nuance. And I'd guess that Apple was likely chosen as the "tracks you" because they push their privacy angle, despite not quite living up to it. It makes sense in that way to target them - if they're widely considered as better than alternatives, what does that say about the alternatives?
- danpalmer 5y agoAs I said, I'm not sure of a solution to the nuance, but I do think each of these is a little irresponsible in its own way. To use the Apple example – you're right they don't quite live up to their privacy marketing (because it's marketing!), but if we teach people that Apple are bad at privacy the answer is that they won't value the privacy angle and will buy cheap Huawei phones, which is about the worst possible outcome. The reality is that Apple are ~90% good at privacy, and most people can probably trust them more than anyone else on the market.
- 908B64B197 5y agoIt's from a French collective. It's interesting how it's fashionable in Europe to bash on "foreign evil tech giants" and every politician tries to fleece them with some fees. I guess it's easier than bootstrapping a homegrown ecosystem of highly successful companies. Ironically, European new grads have no issues coming to SV to innovate...
- happytoexplain 5y ago"Microsoft formats your kids" really fell flat compared to all the others.
- smlacy 5y ago"Microsoft makes your kids use FAT" would have been better? :)
- ghostbrainalpha 5y agoHow about just "Microsoft made Internet Explorer" Edit: I don't care if its good now. I dealt with IE in Microsoft's preferred form (pure shit) for 20 years.
- 908B64B197 5y agoThey made it but enterprises kept it alive.
- ghostbrainalpha 5y agoI'm totally baffled by that one as well. Can someone explain what they are trying to say?
- G4E 5y agoIn french, the verb "formater"[0] can either mean to format (like to format a hdd) or to brainwash. They must have though the meanings where the same in english. [0] https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/formater https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/formater
- JeanMarcS 5y agoMore about La Quadrature du Net : https://www.laquadrature.net/en/ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/
- 908B64B197 5y agoSome of them are... not very good. Amazon sure knows what you order on the website. It also doesn't have infinite shelf space so it does try to figure out info about you to determine what to keep in stock. The local supermarket does as well. Microsoft has been building software to manage fleets of machines for the corporate environment for decades. Now schools need fleets of machines that are easy to manage remotely. What a shocker they would consider Microsoft.