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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception

"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "

"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."

"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."

theconversation.com/digital-lu

The ConversationDigital Luddites are rising. They want to democratise tech, not destroy it
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"If it wasn't already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build & mainstream alternative, #decentralized #socialmedia platforms that are resistant to government #censorship and control, are not owned by #oligarchs and dominated by their #algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction."

#DecentralizedSocialMedia Is the Only Alternative to the #TechOligarchy

404media.co/decentralized-soci

404 Media · Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech OligarchyThe TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

"The tech oligarchy is here, and so content in their strangulation of the media that they can be unashamed in their fealty. They can cheer in public and give Nazi salutes and what of it. Their institutional capture is complete. Even the Anti-defamation League will look at a Sieg Heil and say, “that’s fine.” Because the tech oligarchs know, from last go round, that, as Astra Taylor has pointed out, the opposition becoming outraged about their offenses will ultimately amount to little. There is no longer any power to be found in yelling, or working the refs, or appealing to norms, if there was any to begin with. Our protests online will be filed away into the nooks of the sprawling platforms they own.

Is Elon Musk a card-carrying Nazi? It doesn’t matter. The salute was a juvenile display of power, one that aptly reflects the stature of the fully ascended tech oligarchy. Musk is the richest man in the world, he is the first buddy; he can transcend any norm, any offense, watch him. Like Trump before him, he can tell everyone to eat shit, and while the media wonders if he meant it, he’s already pointing his attention and posts and cannon of obscene wealth in another direction. He owns the platform that dictates his own reality. He barely had to defend himself, he barely denied it. He’ll probably do it again. Who’s going to stop him?"

bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-m

Blood in the Machine · Elon Musk did a Nazi salute on live TV to show us there's nothing we can do about itBy Brian Merchant
#USA#Musk#Nazism