[Freedombox-discuss] Update to "distributed social networking" comic

[Stefano Maffulli]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 19:38 -0700, J David Eisenberg wrote:
> For example, around pages 6-7, I talk about it being difficult to set
> up your own groups with a social network (i.e., Facebook).  Google+,
> however, has made that part simple. What should happen to that
> section?

I don't know but the ease-of-use of the giant data miners should not be
the most important part of our argument. The danger of putting your data
into somebody else's hands was made very visible by the actions of the
criminals at News Of The World: spying on people's phones, even dead
ones, in order to sell advertisement. That's the creepy part. 

The solution IMHO is not just another tool (call it encryption, Onion
routing, distributed social net, whatever) but it's awareness. Your
comic is a good vehicle to raise awareness of the problem and to the
solution. I wouldn't spend too many pages going into the details of the
terms of service, open source, encryption, farmville and other. Keep it
short.

Hop on IRC (http://www.oftc.net) if you want to discuss this further. 
cheers
stef