Where E-Mail, IRC and USENET (Even Social Control Media) Fail at Communications
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-04-02 10:42:55 UTC
- Modified: 2022-04-02 10:42:55 UTC
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Summary: This 5-minute talk, which covers "information overload", "algorithms that may stoke outrage" and a few more things is Paul Fernhout's take on tools that are inherently immoral or problematic; we need less, not more, and better, according to Fernhout. He certainly touches some important points. He suggests an FSF free/libre communication standard. Richard Stallman has historically had subtle communication problems with people (there's this talk in Portuguese with English translation, certainly not by Richard Stallman) and GNU Kind Communications Guidelines were formulated by him. I will speak about my personal views separately.
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