The Ford government is exactly the kind of government the Charter was supposed to restrain. Handing it the notwithstanding clause is like handing a drunk a loaded gun.
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National mobile carriers submit proposals for “affordable data plans”. Telus proposes a plan already in market; Bell & Rogers propose plans significantly more expensive than existing in-market plans, showing just how seriously they’ve taken the #CRTC request
@RobDrimmie@gordtanner Oh, that's a clever idea. Flip a switch, and it becomes a read-only artifact. Build it on a set-top box rather than a router, and you end up with a family photo archive.
@gordtanner@RobDrimmie There's some really cool aspects to what they're doing. Discoverable APIs, consistent data with community supported linters and validators...
@RobDrimmie@gordtanner The #indieweb people are doing some good, but anything that requires maintenance will have trouble competing with big centralized services.
@gordtanner I think the fundamental concept of moving things back out to the edges/decentralizing is the key. Everything being on Facebook, Twitter and Medium is unhealthy.
Giving everyone some easily manageable (secure!) space is a good notion.
The internet isn’t the place I want it to be. How do we go back to the free, open, decentralized vision from the 90s? How can we then keep that a safe space?
Proposal: an AdBlockPlus-like browser extension backed by a crowd-sourced repository of Dark Patterns—as you browse, it would highlight UI elements that are attempting to manipulate or trick you.
Image illustrates Dark Patterns in TurboTax, via https://t.co/7RZYpBfCRJ