"OK, so we have this free-flowing media space. We've deconstructed it, we've demystified it, right, and we have a DIY media. Well, a couple of things happened to change all that. Some of them fine things, some of them kind of weird things.
It's very easy to say 'they' took it away from us, because 'they' wanted to make money off this thing. 'They' were all mean. But 'they' is us, finally."
Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000
"We wanted acknowledgment for what we were doing and we wanted to be paid for it.
Meanwhile, there were some people who were very threatened, of course - companies, TimeWarner for one - who were very threatened by the internet. Treatened by this chaotic media space. Threatened by this free flow of information.
So they too needed to change the public perception of what this was."
Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tn_fdSyZFL0
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"We have a DIY media space ... Where people are talking on the internet, people are making their own camcorder tapes.
And what do they decide to call this thing? ... They called it an information revolution.
... Because information ... is stuff, that can be bought and sold.
This was not an information revolution, this was a communications revolution. This was people talking to one another. We were the content of this thing."
Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tn_fdSyZFL0
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"Of course any rules about blocking a communications medium will have a free-speech dimension – how could it not? And of course any dispute relating to globe-spanning medium will have a national sovereignty dimension.
How could it not?
So if every internet fight is a speech fight and a sovereignty fight, which side should we root for? Here's my proposal: we should root for human rights."
#CoryDoctorow, 6 Nov, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
#HumanRights #FreeSpeech #DigitalSovereignty
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"After the Snowden revelations, countries ... enacted "data localization" rules that required any company doing business within their borders to keep their residents' data on domestic servers. Obviously, this has a human rights dimension: keeping your people's data out of the hands of US spy agencies is an important way to defend their privacy rights. which are crucial to their speech rights (you can't speak freely if you're being spied on)."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
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"Telegram bills itself as an encrypted messaging app, but that's only sort of true. Telegram does not encrypt its group-chats, and even the encryption in its person-to-person messaging facility is hard to use and of dubious quality."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
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"There's no such thing as an internet policy fight that isn't about national sovereignty and speech, and when the two collide, we should side with human rights over sovereignty. Sovereignty isn't a good unto itself – it's only a good to the extent that is used to promote human rights.
In other words: 'Sovereignty, sure, but human rights even moreso'."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
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