The world doesn’t need a new #facebook, it needs a new internet
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Edited from original. Photo credit | Design creditLow-level P2P protocols and decentralizing technology can flourish in the aftermath of recent scandals. However, without mature underlying infrastructure, including a cryptographic solution to clashing requirements for absolute privacy and total, trustless control over access to one’s data, a #blockchain-based social network ‘for the people’ will struggle to retain users.A new low that ups the anteIn Channel 4’s exposé, the Cambridge Analytica execs came across so refined, so diabolically British, that a Beverly Hills casting director must have given Benedict Cumberbatch a call to check his availability — The Social Network left everyone wanting a sequel, did it not? Ex-employee Christopher Wylie’s testimony was similarly damning, spelling out (...)