Re: <nettime> In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

The software I hinted at at the end of my performance at Unlike Us (https://vimeo.com/51366449) is more or less ready.

The idea is to remove all the activity from your timeline (backing up what it can along the way), but to keep the FB account open so that you can have a single post: the details of how to contact you elsewhere. This alleviates a primary anxiety of leaving: how to do so without becoming impossible to find.

It's the song that I've been putting off finishing, but this is certainly the moment.

Announcement will arrive on nettime as soon as it is ready.

Regards,

John

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> wrote:

Dear nettimers,

I know, this is (not) the time for us to speak up… The CA events are taking over, mainstream media are publishing one strange message after the after—and the activists shut their mouth, thinking: I told you so a trillion years ago...

What’s do be done? We discussed that question on the Unlike Us list and here on nettime already from the very beginning, in 2011.

Is it an idea to organize a thousand bigger and smaller Facebook farewell parties? What’s for sure is that it really helps to do this out in the open, together.

Who wants to start this time? A few of you approached me recently with the question if this would be done together, and if so, when and where. Now is the time, if not now, when? Come together, conspire, get things moving!

Random links:

Here is one of the instruction pages how to leave Facebook:
https://mashable.com/2018/03/20/facebook-replacement-openbook-competition/#UL3yreRCRZqJ

This is an interesting ‘Facebook’ discussion on Reddit (via Michael Dieter):
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs/comments/85znl4/reddits_reaction_when_the_world_has_finally_begun/?st=JF0UL9ON&sh=80895fac

Max Krems of Europe vs. Facebook on the current situation:
https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Media-Update-Cambridge-Analytica-en.pdf

Information about Cambridge Analytica in India (via Tripta Chandola):
https://twitter.com/therealjpk/status/976484505035751424

David Carrol’s legal action against Cambridge Analytica:
https://thinkprogress.org/this-professor-is-suing-cambridge-analytica-to-find-out-how-they-profiled-him-e52cdfb7d3fe/

More later, Geert

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