In which I discuss the benefits/drawbacks of offering computing services for a community as an alternative to big tech.
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Yes, cooperatives are loaded with positives. Thinking back over some of them, and other individual initiatives in software, hardware, internet sites, net services, etc., … once Capital gets an eye on it, it has the power to either turn it to shit or to just make it disappear. Even the best of in-person authentication can be foiled once they kidnap your children.
And Capital is super-paranoid; it can conceive a threat from anything, and believe the threat to become real. [just like I’m doing now?]
So, yes, it’s a beautiful life in obscurity. Maybe that’s why rats and cockroaches, viruses and who-knows-what-else have managed to survive for so long.
The good news is that the creative energy of the universe is just that … creative and giving of itself for each other and the common good.
There was a collective enterprise of organizers and movement people around the WTO protests in Seattle 1999 … secure email, websites, email lists.