25 June 2013 - invert the implementation

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Yet Unions Exist

If we let corporations lord it over us, why do we even start with the government? If we want Facebook’s features, we should invert Facebook: Create software to keep the same information under its owners’ individual control and coordinate it not in a central server farm that can be centrally abused, but by a distributed protocol. All we need is one thing that corporations love and we hate, organization.

clue:

It’s a huge corporate power grab that’s been going on since the 1990’s while consumers play along, not even realizing the alternatives.

take oh take this clue away

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