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Who Owns Free Knowledge? 📚 💡
Last week, digital researchers and free knowledge practitioners came together at the Weizenbaum Institute to examine the power hierarchies embedded in free knowledge today, and to imagine a more just future of the commons. It was a wonderful conference, with @wikimediaDE full of enlightening thoughts and new questions.

Read the full report here: weizenbaum-institut.de/news/de

OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power #Wikimedia #DigitalSpaces #Commons #Platforms #Culture

I know, it's crazy to try a summary about #Mastodon and #Bluesky after only some days (it can be different in some weeks). I had opened an account on Bluesky for professional reasons, so the result is different than if I were to use it purely privately. It's my absolutely subjective impression!
steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut (BTW, I bridge from there to Mastodon but not vice versa. Bridges are good for crossposting, they are not a real integration).

SteadyIncessant Chatter“Are you still living or are you already alive?” That was once an advertising slogan for a furniture store. Today we could ask: Are you still alive or are you already…

"Protecting #democracy from threats created by Internet #platforms is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by #usercontrolled and #decentralized #contentmoderation systems."

techpolicy.press/regulated-dem

Tech Policy Press · Regulated Democracy and Regulated Speech | TechPolicy.PressThe First Amendment is meant to protect us from short-sightedness about state power, writes Daphne Keller.