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Ecologia Digital

"Protecting #democracy from threats created by Internet #platforms is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by #usercontrolled and #decentralized #contentmoderation systems."

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Tech Policy Press · Regulated Democracy and Regulated Speech | TechPolicy.PressThe First Amendment is meant to protect us from short-sightedness about state power, writes Daphne Keller.
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Weizenbaum-Institut

The conference will feature thematic sessions on key issues such as epistemic authority in digital spaces, asymmetries in knowledge production, and the challenges of platform governance. We will critically examine how historical legacies and current technological developments influence contemporary knowledge systems.

#Platforms #DigitalSpaces #OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power

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PROGRAM 10:30 – 12:15 Session: The Future of the Knowledge Commons AND Session: The Role of Enlightenment in Knowledge Production
PROGRAM 13.15-15.00 Session: Epistemic Authorities on Digital Platforms – Who Has the Power to Inform? AND Session: Asymmetrical Power Structures in Free Knowledge Today
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Dr Pen

A thread about 'bread'. Imagine this: we all go to the supermarket for bread. There are four kinds of bread available: white, brown and brown or white sliced. I'm a big fan of white sliced! I always buy it. The plastic bag it comes in isn't that great for the environment but it's useful! I find things I can use it for. I eat 6 slices of bread a day, just like the old ad's recommend 😀

#bread #bigtech #platforms #monopolies #mastodon #bluesky #meta #x #microsoft #apple
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A vintage ad from 1937 for eating 6 slices of bread a day. The slogan "you can dance for a half hour on 2 slices of bread" heads the ad.
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