[P2P-F] Fwd: What Google and Facebook are hiding

Tue May 17 07:45:17 CEST 2011

thank you Beth, forwarding,

Michel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mary Beth Steisslinger <marybeth.steisslinger at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Subject: Fwd: What Google and Facebook are hiding
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

Michel, you likely already know of this, but just in case... fyi

mbs

Mary Beth Steisslinger, MS
Integral Systems Biologist
Global Commons Trust,
Commons Action for the UN
www.globalcommonstrust.org

*From: *"Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Civic Action" <moveon-help at list.moveon.org
>
*Date: *May 16, 2011 12:30:01 PM EDT
*To: *"Mary Beth Steisslinger" <marybeth.steisslinger at gmail.com>
*Subject: **What Google and Facebook are hiding*

Dear MoveOn member,

MoveOn wouldn't be possible without the open Internet. But according to our
own Eli Pariser, the Internet itself is changing. His book on the topic, *The
Filter Bubble*, comes out this week (you can check it out
here<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208553&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=1>
).

In March, the TED conference invited him to preview the argument. When I
talked to Eli beforehand, he was really nervous—in the audience were top
executives from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and a number of other companies
he critiques. But his call for an open, ethical Internet—he actually called
out the Google founders and Bill Gates in the audience by name—got a
standing ovation. And it's been burning up the TED website ever since.

We're sharing it today because we think it's a really important
point.* Increasingly,
the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don't even know it.* Take a
moment to watch Eli's TED talk today:

<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208521&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=2>Click here to
see the talk <http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208521&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=3>

*The Filter Bubble*<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208553&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=4>,
Eli's book, has been getting good reviews, too. Here's a particularly good
one from author and 350.org organizer Bill McKibben:

<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208553&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=5>
"You spend half your life in Internet space, but trust me—you don't
understand how it works. Eli Pariser's book is a masterpiece of both
investigation and interpretation; he exposes the way we're sent down
particular information tunnels, and he explains how we might once again find
ourselves in a broad public square of ideas. This couldn't be a more
interesting book; it casts an illuminating light on so many of our daily
encounters."

If you're interested in the book, you can check it out by clicking on the
image to the left or this
link<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=208553&id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx&t=6>—all
of Eli's profits from this email will go to MoveOn.org Civic Action.

It's not a given that the Internet will remain fertile ground for democracy.
We need to make sure it does, and Eli's argument is an important part of
that fight.

Thanks for all you do.

–Daniel and the MoveOn.org Civic Action Team

------------------------------

*Subscription Management:*
This is a message from MoveOn.org Civic Action. To change your email address
or update your contact info, please visit:
http://moveon.org/subscrip/coa.html?id=27429-6861376-sKISpOx
To remove yourself (Mary Beth Steisslinger) from this list, please visit our
subscription management page at:
http://moveon.org/s?i=27429-6861376-sKISpOx

-- 
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20110517/04eff078/attachment.htm 