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I met @mala on 9/11/01, at a surreal dinner we pressed on with despite (or really, because of) the intense terror of the day. He was wearing a t-shirt from NTK, his seminal digital newsletter, bearing its slogan: "THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE'RE STEALING IT BACK"
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Online culture has its roots in a strange swirl of hobbyists, the military, corporate misfits fooling around with their employers' vast computer labs and students and academics dabbling in the early digital world.
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It was no garden of Eden. There was plenty of fighting and plenty of difference, but there was, despite it all, a sense of mission: a collegial urgency to build a commons that would be part of the digital world that everyone could use.
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Watching Congressional hearing on ALGOS #PublicInterestInternet judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/algor…
Senator Durbin will introduce for the Cleans Slate for Kids Online act - legal right to demand to delete all personal data collected under Age of 13. Every kid needs a reset button. But honestly, every human deserves this right. #datarights
Monica Bikert of FB touts newsfeed controls incl. disabling algorithmically ranked feed in favor of a reverse chronology of “eligible content” — but of course this begs the question as to why the latter is not the default and the ranked feed is the option. #PublicInterestInternet
