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We Must Occupy The Web
By Adam Curry on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 5:57 PM.
A picture named sysadminsUnited.jpgWhen I held up this sign last week at #OccupyLA I was deadly serious. permalink
If we truly want to spark a revolution, then we must move to independent ditribution of information. We cannot rely on corporate silos to reliably distribute out words, and worse, they are to easily abused by actors who want to hijack and change the message. permalink
Our very own State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) has admitted they 'train' activists in social networking in other countries, no doubt with the goal of manipulating the message to suit the needs and desires of the administration and the corporations who own them. Just look at which companies are now moving into Egypt and Libya, literally escorted by the very people who supported the 'uprising' permalink
Yesterday the new undersecretary of state, Wendy Sherman, refused to answer why the state deartment has not banned sale of certain internet equipment that is being used globally to monitor and censor the internet. (audio clip here) permalink
The reason is simple; they won't ban these because they are using the same technology against our own people. permalink
Dave Winer predicted this accurately at the start of the Arab Spring, and now it's here in the 'homeland'. permalink
We still have a window of opportunity to dissimenate information reliably through protocols that are not owned by any corporation, such as RSS. permalink
OccupyWeb.org is based on this very principle and is quickly becoming a reliable news source for the occupy movement. permalink
There is a HowTo that shows how you can hook your news into the flow on this site. permalink
Use it. Occupy the Web Now. permalink



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