Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance

Re:Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and M... by qznc on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:45AM (#14155537)

So the goal is to demolish the tech monopolies. There is no plan on how to do that.

We also have to think one step further. If the big power players are broken then there is space to fill and the next player will try to rush in. Many revolutions just exchange one tyrant for another one. We need a vision of the alternative system, an utopia.

The decentralization people can provide a vision, but can you really envision that nearly every household runs its own vserver for $20 a month? Or buys a $200 homeserver every three years? Government-subsidized servers for the poor?

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Re:Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and M... by faitswulff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:50AM (#14157760)

I was impressed by the author's plan, actually. They listed many forms of leverage that _wouldn't_ work on tech monopolies and then arrived at one that would:

> The one effective lever we have against tech companies is employee pressure. Software engineers are difficult to hire, expensive to train, and take a long time to replace. Small teams in critical roles (like operations or security) have the power to shut down a tech company if they act in concert.

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