Strypey
Eden[no comment, for purposes of minimal labouring/#data gifting]
He seems to be talking about the general concepts of #FreeSoftware, #copyleft, the #GPL and #OpenSource, and how the #Anti996 license relates to all this. "Why any software movement will fail", referencing #RichardStallman, not sure what the proposition is here. He moves on to a critique of #DataAsLabour, and the proposition that #disintermedia, via decentralized tech like #IPFS and #BitCoin, will allow users to monetize their own data directly, rather than mediators capturing that value.
but again, i'm not an expert, hell, i haven't even read Das Kapital, so perhaps i'm not the best person to ask about this, and i would also genuinely be interested in other people's thoughts.
undoubtedly, companies and even states can exert control through their access to and even ownership of our data, but are we 'enslaved' by this? i think it certainly can become dangerous + limiting, but not sure the rhetoric of slavery is right, and 'labour' certainly feels wrong
okay okay, maybe i need to say a bit more about this. basically - surveillance capitalism is bad, and the platform economy that is increasingly dominant is bad new. BUT i don't think data is labour. maybe I'm wrong though?!?