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Data capitalism: How to take on the internet giants (independentaustralia.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon are some of the largest and most powerful firms in the global economy. Their size, value and the wealth of their founders raise serious concerns for distributive justice. To address these concerns, as well as the threats these firms pose to political liberties, perhaps we need to change how data is ‘owned’.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two down votes and no comments on a post about Lemmy and self-hosting? Brutal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea ... for me, unless a post is obviously egregious, a downvote without an explicit counter or explanation is rubbish behaviour.

Also ... maybe wrong community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The article does have a little bit of a political angle to it. Though not necessarily pertaining to Australian politics, probably would've been more appropriate in [email protected], but there's nothing wrong with it being here