Re: [autonomo.us] Welcome back to autonomo.us

[rhinokitty]

Hi!

OK, so I'll bite on that tasty morsel hanging on the shiny thing...

I think one good project for autonomo.us would be to start doing exposés.

This group has a good technical understanding of the threats to privacy, 
autonomy and freedom that many cloud based services pose, so a good 
thing to go after would be to show the most egregious abuses of such 
services.

The tech industry needs a better watchdog.  The EFF is awesome, but 
focuses on legislative work more than corporate accountability.  A 
perfect niche!

Advocacy is not dead.  Some great examples can be found just to your 
left in the environmental, labor and human rights arenas.

Here is one great example of a recent campaign against Hershey:

http://laborrights.org/stop-child-forced-labor/cocoa-campaign/tell-hershey-to-raise-the-bar-this-easter-and-passover

Who knew that buying chocolate could support slave labor?!  They offer 
evidence, cite examples, have excellent messaging, and alert the public. 
 Classic corporate watchdog!

autonomo.us could do the same for the tech industry.  Has everything 
that needs to be written about the privacy implications of using 
Facebook been said?  Hardly!

Everyone is very excited to see the revolutions in the Middle East, but 
everytime I read a news story I can almost hear the reporter mutter, 
"This revolution sponsored by Twitter."

Where is the critical voice?  Even on NPR's On the Media is not as vocal 
a critic on the issue as one would expect:

http://www.onthemedia.org/topics/the_internet/1

Many un-critical and technologically ignorant ideas float to the general 
public on the FM dial through this venue.  Perhaps they should be 
interviewing someone from autonomo.us about Twitter and Facebook once 
and a while?

Thoughts?

--ian--


On 4/14/11 3:31 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Totally. Here is my first problem. I don't think advocacy works, anymore.
>
> What can autonomo.us <http://autonomo.us> do that is productive? provide
> a directory of autonomo.us <http://autonomo.us> services? A badge like
> CC licenses with a link to make an updated form of webring for sites,
> with some distincly compliant features? A type of certification for
> sites that don't sell people's data and souls to the devil? That is also
> a potential revenue stream for the project.
>
> I guess being a social club like CC is good for us, but how can we
> really get more people onto this line of thinking and move this beyond a
> bunch of blog posts, friends hanging out and watching ourselves in the
> mirror becoming the cranky long bears we both admire and don't want to be ;)
>
> Call to action! Blat!
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Christopher Allan Webber
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Mike Linksvayer <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>     writes:
>
>      > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:11, Matt Lee <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>      >> Anyway, I should shut up and finish my taxes. Welcome to you all!
>      >
>      > Thank you!
>      >
>
>     Make that a (double/triple/whatever). Â Thanks Matt & Jon...
>     autonomo.us <http://autonomo.us>
>     still greatly necessary. Â Hopefully we can continue both discussion and
>     project activity.
>
>     Mandatory: I, for one, welcome our new autonomo.us
>     <http://autonomo.us> overlords! Â (Hm,
>     except that part of the point of the point of autonomo.us
>     <http://autonomo.us> is to reduce
>     overlord dependency & proliferation... oh well.)
>
>     Looking forward to re-engaging discussion & etc,
>     Â - cwebb
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