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Comment by jdkee

4 years ago

"Human societies must have a free road to organize themselves and grow in a organic way."

How does this happen in the monoculture of the global internet, where local heterogenous subcultures (music, art, cuisine, traditions, languages) are eradicated?

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oscargrouch  4 years ago

The globalization movement that started in the 90's, have no way back. It was the right direction to take anyway..

The question is how much resilient we are to create and cultivate local stuff over the global noise.. I'm pretty sure that despite the difficulty of the task, we can handle it..

But we must have the proper tools to make it flourish.. but my fear is that while we are figuring out all this, some big players decide to replay the titanic wars devouring their children before they get too powerful..

Its not happening yet, because there are barely no threats, but once they start to show up and become trends, i don't expect them to play nice.

And with all the power and control "they" have, it will not be like any old industry vs. newcomers we have witnessed before.

(BTW the matrix app being kicked out of peoples cell phones might be a sign of what will come)

  • nobody9999  4 years ago

    >(BTW the matrix app being kicked out of peoples cell phones might be a sign of what will come)

    Let's be precise here. The Element app was suspended from the Play Store (and restored in less than 24 hours) It was most certainly not removed from peoples' phones.

    We have serious issues with the centralization of network services and we should scream loudly about it and look for ways to diminish the power that comes with that centralization.

    However, making specious claims like that doesn't help. It just makes those who rail against the concentrated power of these big corporations seem deranged.

    There are plenty of real issues to rail against without making shit up.

    • oscargrouch  4 years ago

      So I'm glad this is not the case yet, but Apple specifically have been doing this more prominently than others and it starts with platform handicap (for instance make it almost impossible to create applications in other ways beyond their proprietary API aiming things like the Web).

      FAANG's are feeling that the antitrust guillotine is near their heads, so things will be a little quiet for now, but once the dust have settled they will probably keep doing what they were doing before, unless of course a proper legal framework come to rescue.

      But as the political class have more urgent matters to take care of, i think this legal sophistication we urgently need will not be a priority.