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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 05:50:25 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Jason Kelley
On EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet,” Repair Association leader Gay Gordon-Byrne joins Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley to discuss the past, present and future of the #RightToRepair movement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/podcast-episode-right-repair-catches-car
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1. Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car
  
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  If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is based on the belief that you should have the right to use and fix your stuff as you see fit, a...
- Emir Morataon (noztox@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 15:47:43 JST Emir Morataon
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  - Jason Kelley
  @eff @jgkelley i just remember some article in Wikipedia about theory about the internet is death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
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    Dead Internet theory
    
    The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers. Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception. The date given for this "death" was generally around 2016 or 2017. The dead Internet theory has gained traction because many of the observed phenomena are quantifiable, such as increased bot traffic, but the literature does not support the full theory. Caroline Busta, founder of the media platform New Models, was quoted in an article in The Atlantic calling much of the dead Internet theory a "paranoid fantasy", even if there are legitimate criticisms involving bot traffic and the integrity of the internet, but she said she does agree with the "overarching idea". In an article in The New Atlantis, Robert...

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