{"id":5932,"date":"2016-07-15T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:28:03","slug":"linked-why-we-need-to-take-back-the-internet-from-the-centralizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/linked-why-we-need-to-take-back-the-internet-from-the-centralizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Why We Need to Take Back the Internet from the Centralizers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civichall.org\/civicist\/why-we-need-to-take-back-the-internet-from-the-centralizers\/\">Civic Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The promise of the internet and personal technology was in its decentralization: one of the most profound advances for liberty in history. Yet at a rapid rate we\u2019re seeing it re-centralized, as governments and corporations\u2014often with users\u2019 willing, if short-sighted, cooperation\u2014are taking control in the center, creating choke points over what we say and how we can say it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Facebook situation is helping people, including journalists, see that these choke points are a threat to freedom of expression. For countless millions, Facebook is the new public square. But its terms of service override the First Amendment, as activists and others have discovered. To assemble and speak in the new public square, we need permission from its owner.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Internet was truly for the people and by the people. Yet, we as an Internet citizen collective are too stupid to establish open-source and free places to congregate. Well, I take that back. Places that are free from corporate influence and control are on the Internet, but the collective is too dumb to know about them. I joined Facebook in 2006\/7. My Mom joined Facebook in 2013. How can someone who discovered Facebook 6 years after me be Internet-savvy enough to know why she shouldn\u2019t be on Facebook. Giving all of our eyeball-time to properties controlled by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Medium is a horrible mistake that wasn\u2019t as the founding fathers intended.<\/p>\n<p>BBS was actually peak-Internet when you think about it in terms of public spaces for single topics on servers that were usually publicly funded or funded by private individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civic Hall: The promise of the internet and personal technology was in its decentralization: one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-30T23:58:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"6bfc948d-1010-4503-8194-823d5ef433ea","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-30T23:58:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aa_yUjRAQRQOBlII9XvQz6g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1xG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4236,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/linked-email-is-still-the-best-thing-on-the-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":5932,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Atlantic: Last, Silicon Valley startups seem to be able to offer the great experiences that they do because they centralize our information within their server farms. But email proves that this is not necessarily the case. Progress can come from much more distributed decision-making processes. The email protocol\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5840,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/02\/linked-the-feed-is-dying\/","url_meta":{"origin":5932,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Feed Is Dying&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via NYMag: The feed is dying. 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