M3_Urgent-Publishing

"Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type. Praised for their innovative but clear presentation, they have designed everything from artist’s books for Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra to an official government stamp commemorating the marriage of Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, based on the number two, since the wedding date was 02-02-02. This book represents a range of work from the past 15 years, mostly books but also posters and smaller pieces. However, the artists have chosen not simply to present the work again but to make it new through collage and reinterpretative interplay, thus “recycling” their innovative designs."

"een veel groter probleem: de grote reikwijdte van private macht in het digitale domein."

"Die private machtsovername raakt aan kerntaken van de staat: het ontwikkelen van kunstmatige intelligentie, het bouwen en bedienen van kritieke infrastructuur (en de bescherming ervan), de ontwikkeling van technologie voor defensie maar ook voor aanvallen op anderen in het digitale domein of het slaan van digitale munteenheden."

"Vaak ontbreken transparantie, onafhankelijk toezicht en democratische verantwoording."

"Vaak ontbreken controle en onafhankelijk toezicht volledig omdat de technologische standaarden al bepaald zijn voor de wet er een kader omheen heeft gezet."

"Vorige week nog bleek dat het Amerikaanse Sandvine technologie aan Wit-Rusland leverde waarmee het internet daar als antwoord op de vreedzame protesten kon worden afgesloten."

"Japan, India, Mexico, Australië of Nieuw-Zeeland zijn logische partners voor de EU om mee samen te werken, zeker nu de betrouwbaarheid van de Amerikaanse regering als hoeder van democratie en multilaterale orde wankelt."

"iOS 14 generally requires apps to request permission for any kind of tracking. That’s bad news for Facebook (and Google, for that matter) since a large part of its business model is based on tracking pretty much everything we do online."

"The irony is that Facebook’s biggest concern is that Apple is doing too good a job at protecting privacy — arguably a good thing for users."

"Facebook argues that that makes it harder for businesses to reach the customers most likely to buy their products and services with relevant ads. While that’s true, the difference is that the argument Facebook is making is purely about business. Apple is making a moral case."

"That, ultimately, is what bothers Facebook about iOS 14 — it makes it clear exactly what’s happening with your privacy, and gives you the ability to opt-out."

"While digital technology has always held much promise, not in the least when it comes to publishing, it hasn’t always been able to deliver. Speeding up workflows, allowing for experimental formats, making other voices heard, and reaching new audiences: many of these promises remain for a large part just that: promises. This is caused by a variety of factors, many of them huge, from hyper-capitalist tech monopolies to the favoring of certain types of content by algo- rithms."

"By contrast to our five-yearly vote, capital can respond to government policy every second, withdrawing its consent with catastrophic consequences if it doesn’t like its drift. There’s a massive imbalance of power here. The voting power of capital, with modern trading technologies, has advanced by leaps and bounds. Electoral power is trapped in the age of the quill pen."

"Imagine it's January, 2021, and the United States and western states around the world decided to become 21st century digital democracies. The United States hired its first digital minister, who went through sweeping reforms that entailed a modernization of congress, transparency of each member's votes, video of the all the conversations that congress members had with other lobbyists and guests."

" The core idea is essentially taking all the websites that they don't like in the government and make a fork, that's to say, an alternative based on civic technology. So all it takes is a letter change in your browser bar, G-zero-V, and you get into the shell of government, that works better and is more participatory."

"Well, first of all, of course we want to make sure that everybody can fork our own code. That is, the idea of open innovation, making sure that everybody who has a different idea can just fork their version of that civic tech service and then build their own re imagination of it. It's very powerful because then you get to merge the best, or at least the better, practices without getting into ideological conflicts."

"And that kind of forces the project leader to be more inclusive and also allows for more diversity."

"1-9-2-2, where everybody can call them with new social innovations. For example, there was one day in April, where a young boy, who said he doesn't want to go to school because his school-mates may laugh at him because when you ration the masks you don't get to pick the color, and all he had is pink medical mask. The very next day, everybody in the CECC press conference start wearing pink medical mask, making sure that everybody learn about gender mainstreaming. Which is also a socio-innovation and is on the basis of this trust."

Freedom and equality on the web

“This imprinted on our generation that even the constitution itself is a social technology. Much as you can try different semiconductor designs, you can try different constitutional designs.”

Government regulates and controles what happens on the internet

Companies regulates and controles what happens on the internet

“These new state-level rules are less sweeping than the FCC's old regulations in some ways. State level net neutrality rules passed thus far haven't addressed zero rating, nor do they address the esoteric interconnection agreements carriers make with each other.”

regulate
verb [ T ]
UK /ˈreɡ.jə.leɪt/ US /ˈreɡ.jə.leɪt/

C1
to control something, especially by making it work in a particular way:
You can regulate the temperature in the house by adjusting the thermostat.
[ + question word ] Her mother strictly regulates how much TV she can watch.

Synonym
control

Opposite
deregulate

More examples
Police can invoke the law of trespass to regulate access to these places.
This valve regulates the flow of water into the tank.
The travel industry is regulated by a set of guidelines.
The switch is used to regulate the speed at which the machine operates.
The government has introduced new laws to regulate the sale of firearms.

"On one side sits the system used in China, which produces vast amounts of personal data and blurs into a huge apparatus of state surveillance and censorship. This model is centred on two online behemoths, whose dominance partly comes down to the fact that Chinese consumerism is all about paying via your smartphone, rather than an old-fashioned plastic card. There’s the e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, and Tencent, which owns WeChat, the platform used by more than 1 billion people every day. It does so many things – payments, social networking, messaging, travel booking, gaming – that participating in society without it seems all but impossible."

"On the other side of the modern digital divide is the version of the internet pioneered in the west and now spreading around the planet, which revolves around Google and Facebook. These giants also feast on a mountain of personal information, but present themselves as a contrasting embodiment of personal freedom and liberal values, even as they embed the social model now known as surveillance capitalism."

"Printing shaped and transformed societies over the next four centuries, but nobody in Mainz (Gutenberg’s home town) in, say, 1495 could have known that his technology would (among other things): fuel the Reformation and undermine the authority of the mighty Catholic church; enable the rise of what we now recognise as modern science; create unheard-of professions and industries; change the shape of our brains; and even recalibrate our conceptions of childhood. And yet printing did all this and more."

"And, of course, there is also the fact that the entire project was conducted in what was effectively lawless – or at any rate law-free – territory. Thus Google decided that it would digitise and store every book ever printed, regardless of copyright issues. Or that it would photograph every street and house on the planet without asking anyone’s permission. Facebook launched its infamous “beacons”, which reported a user’s online activities and published them to others’ news feeds without the knowledge of the user. And so on, in accordance with the disrupter’s mantra that “it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission”."