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Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse (infrastructureinsights.fund)

submitted 2 years ago by davel@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Three months ago I posted about the Atlantic Council’s interest in the controlling the fediverse: https://lemmy.ml/post/6641106

I think these projects are the continuation of the successful American “intelligence community” censorship of corporate social media platforms. They even tried to formalize the system two years ago as the Disinformation Governance Board.

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[–] garrett@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Someone’s researching governance in a federated environment and that’s scary because…?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Because it’s corporate & tech oligarch “philanthropic” money and military industrial complex money.

[–] garrett@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago

That hardly means they’re investigating how to take over instances… These egghead think tanks will do research on anything that matches a couple buzzwords and this is one of them.

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