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Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature

I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”

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Thanks for striking

July 6, 2019

Privacy, Internet, Social, Politics

Let me express my extreme gratitude to everyone who signed the Declaration of Digital Independence and went on social media strike July 4 and/or 5. I’d also like to thank the many reporters who picked up this story. I’m cognizant that this attention represented some trust of me, i.e., that I wouldn’t hijack this movement…
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#SocialMediaStrike resources

June 28, 2019

Internet, Social

Here I will try to maintain a complete page of links to the main #SocialMediaStrike resources. Includes media to share, below. Social Media Strike! (larrysanger.org)Basic info on the social media strike: On July 4 and 5 (at least one day), people with serious grievances against social media—including you?—will go on strike. You could, but obviously don’t have to,…
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Declaration of Digital Independence

June 26, 2019

Theory, Internet, Social

Version 1.3 (June 29, 2019; version history) See also: Social Media Strike! — FAQ about the project to decentralize social media — Resources This document is included as Chapter 11 of my 2020 book, Essays on Free Knowledge. Please support the struggle for freedom by buying a copy! Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast…
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Social Media Strike!

June 25, 2019

Theory, Internet, Social

Short URL for this page: tiny.cc/july45 See also: Declaration of Digital Independence — FAQ about the project to decentralize social media — Resources On July 4 and 5 (at least one day), people with serious grievances against social media—including you?—will go on strike. You could, but obviously don’t have to, announce that you are one…
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FAQ about the project to decentralize social media

June 25, 2019

Theory, Internet, Social

See also: Declaration of Digital Independence — Social Media Strike! — FAQ about the project to decentralize social media — Resources General questions What is the Declaration of Digital Independence? Here it is. It is not meant to be a general bill of digital rights. Rather, it has the very delimited purposes of (1) declaring…
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Version history for “Declaration of Digital Independence”

June 9, 2019

Social, Theory, Internet

1.3 (2019-06-29) Added CC-by-sa license (thought I had done this earlier but apparently not). 1.2 (2019-06-29) Added a quote from Thomas Jefferson, author of the original Declaration, and a picture of his Monticello. 1.12 (2019-06-26) Bolded the words “We, therefore, the undersigned people of the Internet”. 1.11 (2019-06-25) In the preamble, to “centralized architecture of…
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The Antivitist Trend in the West

June 5, 2019

Culture, Politics, Philosophy

Recent events have suggested that there is a trend afoot in the West: that life is overrated and that death is not so bad. Call it, for lack of a better term, antivitism (from Latin vita, life). People who are aware of their own commitment to this view call it, rather funnily, efilism, which is…
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Is letting a 17-year-old die morally equivalent to killing her?

June 5, 2019

Culture, Philosophy

A spate of news articles appeared yesterday, reporting that Dutch 17-year-old mental patient Noa Pothoven was euthanized. This formulation—she was euthanized—caused outrage in certain circles. This is factually incorrect, they say. She was not euthanized. She took her own life. What are the facts of the case? She was sexually attacked and assaulted three times,…
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Some thoughts on the new Voice.com project

June 1, 2019

Internet, Social, Everipedia

This evening we finally learned what the #B1June hype was all about: among other things, a new social media system called Voice.com, built by Block.one, the company behind the outrageously well-performing EOS token. (Full disclosure: Everipedia, where I am CIO, is built on EOS and is the recipient of a major investment from Block.one.) The…
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How to write an app (that respects privacy and supports security)

May 24, 2019

Privacy, Tech and Coding

Some difficult-to-meet requirements Be open source. Don’t make users have to trust your black box. I don’t want to have to trust you. I don’t know you. Don’t just release your in-house source code. Develop in public; practice outreach to OSS developers to loop in others; make distributed code reviews a standard practice. Be fully…
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