"I've long been frustrated at the way that #techbros claim to be #democratizing things like #accessToAI or "access to information". It always seems to be deployed as an excuse for hoarding data…

My rejoinder has been: "#Democracy means #sharedgovernance, not just broad access. Where is your system for allowing everyone represented in that data to have a say about how it is collected, stored, and used?"

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Information Access as a Public Good

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