Political cycles & Justice in tech
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May 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I do think it would be a positive development if on social media we could get a sense of the proportion of content we are being exposed to for any given keyword over time.
This idea of a transparency dashboard is what we were exploring in 2018 with FB data.
Basically, to define a keyword and see what percentage of
-the posts published by people you follow THAT
-contained certain keywords
did you scroll through in your timeline?
Feb 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"...failure to conclude this negotiation in a manner that is deemed fair to all parties is likely to broaden the gap between key actors and lead towards the fragmentation of the web. Underpinning these growing tensions are two key issues: distributive justice and value systems."
"The distributive justice issue can be deemed internal: it does not question the way in which the web is geared towards creating value and its limitations, but the way in which such value is to be distributed."
Feb 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Luego de años de que los medios adaptaran sus formas y formatos para ser funcionales a la plataforma, en este momento en Australia no se puede compartir enlace a artículos de medios periodísticos.
La efectividad del bloqueo a diarios en Australia por parte de Facebook, y su consecuente impacto económico, deja evidencia
el grado de dependencia en torno a FB,
y la urgencia por desarrollar una infraestructura digital orientada a sostener la libertad de expresión en el SXXI
Apr 5, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Un 1/3 de la población mundial fue confinada a su hogar
Mientras el mundo que conocían se esfuma.
Las lógicas del mercado que decían gobernarlo
ya ni describen ni prescriben
Se ven desnudas: inútiles, bajas y ferozmente injustas.
Y sobre una crisis de salud, se gesta otra crisis
Con una población que ha visto al rey neoliberal desnudo
Se gesta una crisis de conciencia:
-"Décadas de vida se fueron trabajando para alguien que aparentemente no me necesita ni me valora"
-"En qué mundo hemos vivido todos estos años?"
Huge victory for a technical community that has spent decade explaining how the architecture & ethos of the internet are under attack.
6 arts!
2. "But like Sir Tim, many people have recently become more critical of it (...) At the heart of their disenchantment, this special report will argue, is that the internet has become much more “centralised” than it was even ten years ago." economist.com/special-report…
