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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Nov-2018 09:47:05 UTC Strypey

   • kaiyou

   @kaiyou there's an old saying in radical media circles, "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one". The revolutionary thing about the PC+internet was (in theory) that anyone who has them has a printing press. Problem is, at some point, the same #BigCable companies who were supplying net connections also got into the web hosting business. It then suited them to throttle upload bandwidth for anyone not paying for commercial hosting packages, which are now the printing presses of the net.

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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Nov-2018 09:50:03 UTC Strypey

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     • kaiyou

     @kaiyou the same thing happened to previous generations, with TV broadcasting, and before that radio broadcasting. They started as DIY media that anyone could use cheaply for public speech, and ended up as commodities dominated by an ever smaller number of giant corporations. So at root, the for-profit corporation is the medium we need to come up with radical alternatives to, like #SocialEnterprise and #PlatformCooperativism

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   • kaiyou (kaiyou@mastodon.tedomum.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Nov-2018 09:51:38 UTC kaiyou

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     @strypey Hopefully, current efforts with decentralizing social media and making heavy broadcasting affordable (webtorrent, peertube, etc.) are going to push us in the right direction.

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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Nov-2018 10:27:57 UTC Strypey

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     • kaiyou

     @kaiyou it's a step in the right direction, for sure. But I think we also need to consider political campaigns, eg for telecoms regulations that prevent companies owning both cable and server businesses, or anti-trust efforts to stop cable companies from throttling upload speeds to force customers to buy hosting from them. If we move from corporations hosting gratis services for us, to paying them to do the hosting ourselves on their "clouds", what have we really gained?

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.