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Right... the solution to Stallman's concerns about government surveillance of social networks is definitely a government shutdown of Facebook and the developmen
by crystaln 13y ago
Right... the solution to Stallman's concerns about government surveillance of social networks is definitely a government shutdown of Facebook and the development of a centralized social DNS created by the government.
- smky80 13y agoThe point was really just to push for decentralization of social networks, through some kind of mandated data-sharing interface. The "DNS" thing is probably actually unnecessary I guess, it was just a random thought. We don't let utilities just get a monopoly in an area and then just gouge everyone, and we shouldn't allow a social network to do so either. The NSA spying, by itself, is just a symptom of larger problem, which is the ability of a smaller, more cohesive group of people to leverage larger institutions like massive governments and corporations to control and extract rents out of the less cohesive masses. I doubt there is a technological solution to this, especially with so many engineers working for the bad side as Useful Idiots or straight up Defectors.