[NetBehaviour] Facebook isn’t a charity. The poor will pay by surrendering their data

[Rob Myers]

On 2015-04-29 06:11, marc garrett wrote:
> Facebook isn’t a charity. The poor will pay by surrendering their
> data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/does-internetorg-deprive-latin-americans-real-internet

"RedPaTodos, a coalition of Internet users in Colombia, adds that 
Internet.org will never be free as advertised because the cost will be 
paid by users with their personal data (amounting to more than 8 million 
Colombians, in the case of local partner Tigo.) "

internet.org demonstrates the corporate-friendly failings of focussing 
on internet access in itself without a guiding idea of freedom (or 
justice if we must).

It's possible to imagine a future in which we control and gain passive 
income from the data that Facebook currently profits from aggregating 
and using against us:

https://idcubed.org/bitcoin-burning-man-beyond/

But such fantasies serve mostly to promote locked-down computing systems 
and fuel the instrumentalized narcissism that is behind both the selfie 
and social media workerism (the idea that we should be paid for Being 
Ourselves on Facebook):

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03620usen/GBE03620USEN.PDF

"Most IoT business models also hinge on the use of analytics to sell 
user data or targeted advertising. These expectations are also 
unrealistic. Both advertising and marketing data are affected by the 
unique quality of markets in information: the marginal cost of 
additional capacity (advertising) or incremental supply (user data) is 
zero. So wherever there is competition, market-clearing prices trend 
toward zero, with the real revenue opportunity going to aggregators and 
integrators."

Regarding social media workerism, if people want to be paid for using 
Facebook there's already a market in that but it's probably not one 
they'd like to participate in:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121551/bot-bubble-click-farms-have-inflated-social-media-currency

(via bruces on ello)