Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra @palinuro@librem.one

"Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many others have used open source code to create grand, global advertising networks," observes Ashlee Vance.

Eben Moglen says, "We made good stuff, and it was turned into ammunition against our dreams."

Read: https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/microsoft-apocalypse-proofs-open-source-code-in-an-arctic-cave

The history of USENET and the alt. hierarchy shows what we lost when the Internet stopped being about protocols and started being about products—a catastrophe adversarial interoperability staved off for decades, until we blocked it with terrible tech laws. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial

I mentioned the other day that health care data is one area where people who "have nothing to hide" still care about #privacy.

Personal finances is the other area and it looks like Google's going there too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/13/google-eyes-banking-it-widens-its-reach/