"recent" when applied to my youtube channel means "in the last year" ;-).
Dr. Pietro Speroni di Fenizio,
Post by Steve CoffmanThanks for your thoughtful reply Pietro.
btw...I couldnât find any of your recent YouTube videos on crypto sphere.
On Apr 3, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Pietro Speroni di Fenizio <
For a long time I thought that the way forward with FB would be for FB to
introduce real democratic rules to handle its groups. Once thaat was in
place, then other entities could have been handled in the same way. Also FB
itself (although I never went far enough to even thinking it, because as
Jacopo points out FB is a company). One time at a web event where I was
about to speak, I met a google engineer who was also another speaker. So
the evening before I had some time to speak with him, and what he told me
Q) what do you do if someone has a really cool idea for FB?
A) we try our best to ignore him, and even avoid hearing what he has to say?
Q) What???
A) There are too many issues with patents, and litigations, and who owns
what idea, and so on. And FB does not want to get involved with all that.
And that was the first part. Even if the first part was so negative, I
still went forward about the second set of questions. I asked him about
eDemocracy as could be implemented in FB. And saying that they were in the
perfect positionto really transform the world. I don't remember the exact
answer he gave me but it was really disheartening. Something along the
lines that FB does not give a s#!+ about this, and would never implement
any of this. I remember at the time I was quite hopeful. FB had just
introduced various forms of polling, and thought eDemocracy was just one
short step ahead. After that we went backward, and many polling tools were
later retracted (and only left for groups), and then thngs changed again.
And so on.
At the end I reached the conclusion that FB, like political systems, are
really hard to renovate. And the easiest way is to start a new system
planning things well from the beginning.
Which is what I am now working on in the crypto sphere (see my recent
youtube videos if you are curious about it).
So I don't think this will succeed. But maybe, hopefully, I am wrong.
P
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Dr. Pietro Speroni di Fenizio,
Home Page: http://www.pietrosperoni.it
Post by Steve CoffmanThe users donât own the company but they can boycott the advertisers.
That might shake things up a bit. If that doesnât work, then couple the
boycott with a shareholder divestment campaign. If that doesnât do it, then
adding in a campaign to *Delete* FB might be sufficient to force MZ to
accept users demands for access to some level of crowdsourced policymaking.
We need to begin somewhere. Every which way we turn itâs the same thing;
entrenched corporate elite running the show. The only way we're ever going
to prevail is to stand up en masse and use the powers we do have to build a
new system. Facebook and other global social media platforms are readymade
for organizing large numbers of people very efficiently. Seem like a no
brainer to me. But yes, it is a crazy idea.
impossible I will say to be really short. FB is a Company not own by the users.
What make you believe that a crowdsource project could impose any rules?
Would you trust MZ or any shareholder?
In Italy a party with "direct democracy" "dna" has just won the election
but the DD platform is closed source!!!
I feel so sorry for myself just to be an Italian.
Regards to all
j
Post by Steve CoffmanIâm thinking about kickstarting a campaign to crowdsource a governance
structure sufficient to take over policymaking at Facebook?
Without user support, the entire platform would collapse. I believe a
targeted strategy with the threat of a BDS campaign might do the job.
Your thoughtsâŠ.
From a recent interview with Zuckerberg by Ezra Klein on âVoxâ.
"I certainly think thatâs a fair question. My goal here is to create a
governance structure around the content and the community that reflects
more what people in the community want than what short-term-oriented
shareholders might want. And if we do that well, then I think that could
really break ground on governance for an internet community. But if we
donât do it well, then I think weâll fail to handle a lot of the issues
that are coming up.â
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebo
ok-interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge
Specifically, what platform would be best to use in order to develop a
list of goals, demands, or shared policy objectives, etc.?
And what wording would work best to get the meme going?
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