{"id":702,"date":"2019-07-01T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-07-01T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:36:50","slug":"declaration-of-digital-independence-larry-sanger-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of Digital Independence \u2013 Larry Sanger Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re all tired of the America-Online-like centralization of the Internet.\u00a0 Various countries are solving the problem by arbitrarily cutting themselves off, and forming their own little non-Internets, but maybe cut off your nose to spite your face?\u00a0 But there&#8217;s no reason we all need to buy into the way social media is set up at the moment, just because it&#8217;s convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sanger asks that we post our own copies of his &#8220;Declaration of Digital Independence&#8221;, which seems a little contrary to the point of the net.\u00a0 In the spirit of hypertext, I&#8217;m posting a link to his copy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/larrysanger.org\/2019\/06\/declaration-of-digital-independence\/\">Declaration of Digital Independence \u2013 Larry Sanger Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a media strike that goes along with it: a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;collective pause in our use of social media, except to post notices and memes that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Declare that we are on strike. Use hashtag #SocialMediaStrike.<\/li>\n<li>(Optional.) Point to a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/larrysanger.org\/2019\/06\/declaration-of-digital-independence\">Declaration of Digital Independence<\/a> (preferably, your own; see \u201cHow\u201d below). Invite others to sign the Declaration.<\/li>\n<li>Urge others to join the strike. Ask your friends, family, and followers to sign and strike.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No Reddit for me Thurs-Fri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re all tired of the America-Online-like centralization of the Internet.\u00a0 Various countries are solving the problem by arbitrarily cutting themselves off, and forming their own little non-Internets, but maybe cut off your nose to spite your face?\u00a0 But there&#8217;s no reason we all need to buy into the way social media is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}