mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)i wonder if anyone who has ever operated an smtp or irc server could have predicted any of the problems with the fediverse going on right now
i guess we'll just never know
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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Whenever somebody dares say "maybe the people with the power to fix broken things should at least try to fix that broken thing," invariably someone demands a full detailed plan of operation—not as a way of figuring out how to make that aspiration come to reality, but as a way of quickly shutting the aspiration down; it's like they're self-appointed middle managers for useless politicians.
(Ja, es geht im den "Bundesblock", der beim Bundestag meckern will, dass er nicht eingeladen wurde)
Wenn ich nen Lobbyverband wäre, der es nicht mal schafft, von den Business-Über-Alles Parteien zu Anhörungen eingeladen zu werden, würde ich ja eher Selbstzweifel ausbilden denn Verschwörungen wittern.
Am 14. Dezember reden wir im Bundestag über #web3 und #metaverse. Und holy shit ist das zu großen Teilen eine fantastisches Expert*innengruppe. Mit @malteengeler @Lilith und @molly0xfff kann da nix schief gehen.
Souvereignty as in individualist/nationalist concept is really not great. Without strong social/global structures to place these concepts in they are just useful for rich, highly trained/developed people/countries.
c) governments need to realize that if a global corporation can take that term so easily maybe the concept isn't as strong as people believe. It's a paper tiger that at best directs some funding to smaller local companies but won't change the grand scheme of things.
b) civil society NGOs need to start understanding that their concept of "digital Souvereignty" as self-governance of individuals is not just short-sighted but also not what that term means. That fight has been lost and using that framing just strengthens the government narrative
"AWS announces Digital Souvereignty Pledge"
Interesting for a bunch of reasons:
a) EU will tell itself "see we are super influential with our recent meme" when this shows how much global corporations can just adapt and conquer that concept.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/aws-announces-digital-sovereignty-pledge/
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Worrying about the "rights and interests" of hypothetical sentient machines strikes me as a fine exercise for fiction writers. Anyone who is working with actual legal systems would be better off spending their time looking out for *humans* whose rights are not fully supported.