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Can Social Media Be Saved?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/technology/social-media-privacy.html

by kylebarron • 8 years ago

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fakescience• 8 years ago

Read this earlier today. I was struck by the idea of "unionizing" users to help them take action against corporate interests who ultimately control user data. This makes particular sense when you think about data as a new form of labor that is produced by the many (users) but controlled by a few in power (the people who work at technology companies).

This idea has been around for a while [1], yet no "unions" for users of social networks seem to currently exists. Ironically, organizing a union seems like something that could easily be done via social media [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto [2] https://www.facebook.com/Internet-User-Union-128319670511322...

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