Distributed Web of Care

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Abstracting infrastructure problems into logistical ones cements control

  • ==“Google and AWS have abstracted infrastructural problems into logistical problems."==
  • "==AWS is like the Department of Transportation and to access the Internet “city” you need to get on these “highways” that have been conveniently laid out for you by Amazon.== Taking this as the norm, you focus on how computing problems have to do with logistics–how to get on the “highway” and possible traffic issues that come with using it.”
  • Paths simultaneously grant and restrict access
  • =="You don’t question whether the fact that computing being dominated by these “highways” is the real infrastructural problem and instead focus on logistical problems."==

The less obvious the control the more insidious

  • Taeyoon Choi argued that control in ==the Internet is not in the form of a central, omnipresent watchtower. Instead, it is less obvious and so more insidious in that the centralized network gives you the illusion of freedom while tracking your movements.==
  • "...networks and trust I take for granted on a daily basis."

Code of conduct

  • Taeyoon Choi suggested code of conduct might be more important than Code itself.