Saturday, 24 August 2019
Platform alternatives
Since Trebor Scholz of the Platform Co-operative Consortium and the scandals at Facebook Corporation under "adolescent genius" Mark Zuckerberg raised the alarm a few years ago more and more Internet users have become aware of the need for political and personal control of the online utilities they use. Here is a useful discussion of some of the options: https://internethealthreport.org/2019/what-if-facebook-were-owned-by-its-users.
As a programme of worker co-op Libra Knowledge and Information Services TorontotheBetter sits in Scholz's platform cooperativism camp, but let's remember as well the non-profit browser model of Mozilla's Firefox, still going strong after many years. Another, and better, Internet world is possible.
