From geert at xs4all.nl  Sat Sep  1 11:24:46 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 11:24:46 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <26BAAE82-EFA8-4F08-A814-C25D5B20C43D@xs4all.nl>

Rightwingers on the Infowars ban of GAFA
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/08/06/stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook/ <https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/08/06/stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook/>

Why is Alex Jones using Facebook and YouTube in the first place?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/problem-alex-jones <https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/problem-alex-jones>

Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon
https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/ <https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/>

Privacy Legislation: An American Story
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html>

On Mastodon
https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/ <https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/>

Steve Bannon proposes nationalization of Facebook and Google?s data
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/steve-bannon-big-data-facebook-twitter-google <https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/steve-bannon-big-data-facebook-twitter-google>

Teens that leave social media
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media <https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media>


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From geert at xs4all.nl  Sat Sep  1 17:08:37 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 17:08:37 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <858BCAD8-86F8-4E13-A976-63CB6BF4A74F@xs4all.nl>

Rightwingers on the Infowars ban of GAFA
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/08/06/stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook/ <https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/08/06/stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook/>

Why is Alex Jones using Facebook and YouTube in the first place?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/problem-alex-jones <https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/problem-alex-jones>

Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon
https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/ <https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/>

Privacy Legislation: An American Story
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html>

On Mastodon
https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/ <https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/>

Steve Bannon proposes nationalization of Facebook and Google?s data
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/steve-bannon-big-data-facebook-twitter-google <https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/steve-bannon-big-data-facebook-twitter-google>

Teens that leave social media
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media <https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media>


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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Sun Sep  2 11:12:04 2018
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:12:04 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Fwd: links
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Date: 2018-09-02 09:17
 From: Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>



Rightwingers on the Infowars ban of GAFA
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2018/08/06/stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook/

Why is Alex Jones using Facebook and YouTube in the first place?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/problem-alex-jones

Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon
https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/

Privacy Legislation: An American Story
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html

On Mastodon
https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/

Steve Bannon proposes nationalization of Facebook and Google?s data
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/steve-bannon-big-data-facebook-twitter-google

Teens that leave social media
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media




From smyrnaios at hotmail.com  Thu Sep  6 11:49:47 2018
From: smyrnaios at hotmail.com (Nikos Smyrnaios)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:49:47 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> New book on The Internet Oligopoly of Google, Apple,
 Facebook, Amazon & Microsoft
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Dear colleagues,



I?m happy to inform you that my book ?Internet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World? (Emerald Publishing) is out.



It recounts how a handful of US-based companies established a powerful oligopoly over the internet in a little more than a decade. Drawing on a historical and political economy analysis, the book provides insight on how, under neoliberal hegemony, the internet was transformed from an emancipatory project for humanity to the final frontier of unrestrained capitalism.



You can order the book on Emerald?s website :

https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Internet-Oligopoly/?K=9781787692008



You can also download the Introduction for free on this link:

https://books.emeraldinsight.com/resources/pdfs/chapters/9781787692008-TYPE23-NR2.pdf



Here?s a short description of the book:



?The unique contribution of this book is in offering an analytical framework of the contemporary internet as a whole, studied through the lens of history and political economy. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are not examined here as exceptional successes, but rather as emblematic products of a new capitalist order that they have also helped forge, legitimize and strengthen. This neoliberal order is resolutely opposed to the original project of the internet. The book retraces in some detail the process of commodification that resulted in financial rationales taking over the field of networked computing, which was originally conceived of as a public good in the service of collective and individual emancipation. The book then uncovers how, today, this internet oligopoly uses its exorbitant market power to eliminate any potential competition; how it takes advantage of global financialization to exploit human labour on a global scale and to avoid taxation; and how it implements strategies to control our communication methods for accessing information and content online, thus increasingly controlling the digital public sphere. The book dives deeply into the historical process and the economic and political forces that paved the way for the establishment of this Internet Oligopoly. In so doing, it reveals how the business models of these private companies, and their revolutionizing advertising, have reshaped our modern societies. Ultimately, it shows that the future of the internet cannot be thought of outside broader issues such as the place of work in future societies, social and economic inequalities, and, ultimately, democracy?.



For further information please contact me at:    smyrnaios at protonmail.com



Nikos



 p.s. Apologies for crossposting


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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Sun Sep 30 12:47:33 2018
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:47:33 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> TBL (Solid) - Embracing the Profit Imperative
Message-ID: <a862973754769b6d02d83af4b7290d23@xs4all.nl>

Sep 29

I have taken a sabbatical from MIT, reduced my day-to-day involvement 
with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and founded a company called 
inrupt where I will be guiding the next stage of the web in a very 
direct way. Inrupt will be the infrastructure allowing Solid to 
flourish. Its mission is to provide commercial energy and an ecosystem 
to help protect the integrity and quality of the new web built on Solid.
https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-web-87f92217d085

A world of new business opportunities
Inrupt creates a new ecosystem for commerce, a place where 
entrepreneurial developers can ...
https://www.inrupt.com/


--g