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Solidarity to #blocksidewalk from #fuckoffgoogle & co.
The struggle of the people of Toronto against Google/Sidewalk Labs' attempt to build a "smart district" is critical for the future of humanity and the autonomy of the people.
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Fuck off Sidewalk Labs! Fuck off Alphabet/Google &co!
Stärke, Mut und Solidarität!
Open Letter to Waterfront Toronto by 100+ Toronto-area residents re: Sidewalk Toronto
"Torontonians are tired of a process that has largely been conducted behind closed doors and which still leaves key questions about Sidewalk Labs’ [Google's "smart city" sister company] plan unanswered, including how much publicly-owned land is involved in the deal."
#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #FuckOffSideWalk #BlockSideWalk #Toronto #SmartCity #SpyCity
Canadians were treated to an announcement involving the leaders of all three levels of government gushing and fawning about an enlightened urban partnership with a foreign company whose business model is built exclusively on the principle of mass surveillance … Eric Schmidt, Google’s former executive chair, said they had realized their long-running dream for “someone to give us a city and put us in charge.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-sidewalk-toronto-is-not-a-smart-city/
"But the 437-page book documents how much private control of city services and city life Google parent company Alphabet Inc.’s leadership envisioned when it created the company, which could soon be entitled to some of the most valuable underdeveloped real estate in North America, estimated by one firm to be worth more than half-a-billion dollars."
#BlockSidewalk
Known internally as the ‘yellow book,’ 437-page report from 2016 describes life in a Sidewalk neighbourhood such as Toronto’s proposed Quayside site as an experience based, in part, on how much data people are willing to share
FUCK OFF GOOGLE, AMAZON &Co !!
Aral Balkan