2/ a point to expand upon: one's individual data is probably not that very valuable; it's much more valuable *in aggregate* and *with cross-correlation *. it would probably make much more sense for group ownership of data - think shareholders in a business venture.
3/ another point to expand upon: ability to trade our own data would *also* provide us with a degree of feedback as to how (non-)anonymous does our data make us.
imagine if, for every draft post, you could get an estimate "this de-anonymizes you by 2%" or some such.
4/ personal belief, we the internet users would be better off selling (& buying) *service* rather than data items. this includes selling *access* to a service that, having been fed your data, (...)
5/ (...) gives buyers various predictive & informative services ("likely to drive safely", "likely to buy a new computer soon", "work on his book is progressing well" etc.).
this might also entail service for *getting messages through SPAM filters*, because why not.
6/ again, a lot of that is much more valuable & feasible *if* done as a group, as a business venture with members being shareholders.
two key concerns:
7/ by practical necessity such group/venture would be represented by an *avatar*; a persona (whether real or fictional) fit to show and act in stead of the group. both perceptually and formally.
8/ also by necessity such group/venture would need a way to exclude "mis-behaving" members and groups at will, with the criterion being "not aligned with our common vision and plans", and variations of it.
9/ the current legislative & judicial environment (rly, PR & HR) is a show-stopper for such groups - they wouldn't be allowed to exclude people and groups from membership at will, under excuses of various "muh civil rights" - rly, entryism for selected groups.
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2/ Be pseudonymous online. Establish and use a long-running identity that is worth maintaining. Exchange it every couple years. Have side identities for when necessary.
Some of those could well be *shared* with others allied with you. 4chan's "Anonymous" identity comes to mind.
1/ The "no politics" rule of polite conversations has proven destructive. Question the "no politics" rule. Question the origin of the "no politics" rule.
2/ "No politics" - for sake of unity - has proven to be head-in-sand. Unity is a compromise negotiated from positions of strength and understanding, not an abrogation of your position. Where there is subversion of the negotiated compromise, there there is no unity.
3/ The left subverted the "no politics" rule of polite conversation by re-defining its political demands ("X rights", "free/costless Y", "equality of Z" etc.) as "common sense", "modern", "humanitarian", and - "non-political".
perhaps that's the point: to put Twitter in position of deeming who is a journalist (corporate media?) and who "isn't" (Andy Ngo?)
Twitter and "private media" poasting ban: they codified a carve-out for "covered by mainstream media". This might be aimed at smaller journalists like Andy Ngo. Or memes.
A lot will hinge on how they will interpret they other marked point, "contains eyewitness account...".
Claire Lehmann and her crew are engaging in very interesting strategy:
staying correct on secondary concerns - and also turning that into supporting the official line of their government's primary concerns du jour.
>corrective information
>we're just protecting the indigenous communities
This is particularly interesting, coming from a portugal politician.
He says flat out" fake news" because the name is not an exact translation according to him - and because the measures enacted are "sensible". Replies lists what was enacted - exactly what you expect.
1/ A buddy asked in a conversation, "Do right leaning people have to adopt the stupid ACAB mindset of the wokies on Twatter?"
Strange as it might sound, it warrants a brief investigation.
2/ The woke "ACAB" is a shorthand for a broader idea of "police as a system and institution is broken". Under the "ACAB" banner, the accent is more on the whole of the system & institution - and less on individual officers.
3/ The wokes have various leftist beefs with the police, like "overpolicing certain ethnicities", "police brutality", "blue wall of silence", the generic "racism" and "white supremacy". Also "protecting / siding with white supremacists". They often throw in "domestic violence".
Never mind all the Googles of this world; the government is the OG information economy, and it *eats* anybody's information economy lunch all day every day.
Prog media tries to out-flank with emotion economy.
What is the resourceful dissident to do?
I suppose government creating a classified document is, in information economy, an analog to minting a financial instrument. Gives natural explanation to why such inflation of classified information. FOIA is, in a funny way, *direct transfers*, usually to friendly NGOs.
>what is the resourceful dissident to do?
There are many things the government inherently sucks at. For sake of example, consider *leadership*: obviously not a meta-stable thing for the government to run. And it's lightly taxed.