Re:Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself
by captainbland on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:35AM
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> I am not so sure about public/coop infrastructure part - I don't think government is automatically better than a company
Coops aren't the same thing as government, they're about worker or consumer ownership and management of a business - although coops are certainly vulnerable to anti-competitive behaviour in the current state of affairs.
Having social media companies be cooperatives of their users could be a way of ensuring that people still have some realistic degree of control over how that data is used, for example.
Coops aren't the same thing as government, they're about worker or consumer ownership and management of a business - although coops are certainly vulnerable to anti-competitive behaviour in the current state of affairs.
Having social media companies be cooperatives of their users could be a way of ensuring that people still have some realistic degree of control over how that data is used, for example.