HPR1097: The Cyberunions Podcast

Today it's the turn of The Cyberunions Podcast, https://cyberunions.org/. Cyberunions is a project exploring the intersection between trade union organising and new technology. Rather than seeing technology as a set of tools, we see cyberspace as a space, where people work, organise politically, are entertained and educated, and engage in many fields of human endeavour.

Todays show is The Cyberunions Podcast - Episode 46: gIMMI net freedomz https://cyberunions.org/the-cyberunions-podcast-episode-46-gimmi-net-freedomz/

We speak to Smári McCarthy of the International Modern Media Institute

1:30 May Day updates

• Good day in Mexico City
• Good article about the new and old left coming together in the US
• Interesting times across Europe
• Elections in the UK (local), France and Greece

6:00 Tech update

• Apple finally credits Open Street Maps
• Duckduckgo searches Open Street Maps if you search !osm

8:00 Interview with Smári McCarthy

• International Modern Media Institute builds media freedom best practice
• Makes Iceland the best country in the world to host information
• Time to go on the offensive to assert net freedom
• In the US, free speech is easy to suppress at local level
• Free speech laws are 200 years out of date and not fit for the information age
• Never waste a good crisis - it’s an opportunity for change
• Birgitta Jonsdottir helped promote media freedom in the Alþingi
• The financial crisis means Iceland can no longer rely on is finance sector
• Data services become a new economic sector, which is diversified and encourages entrepeneurship
• ACTA is a threat to a large portion of human endeavour and must be stopped
• Lobbyists have succeeded in entrenching intellectual monopoly protections into the Kenyan constitution - allows them to leverage East Africa
• How do unions fit into this? Where is the digital labour movement?
• The labour movement is paralysed by hierarchy - the internet challenges this and can unlock union power
• The industrial revolution was a tragic mistake
• How do you protect whistleblowers?
• You can get hosting in Iceland through Ecodis

Links

• https://immi.is/Home
• https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/may-day-chicago
• https://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/how-openstreetmap-got-apple-to-give-it-due-credit.php
• https://www.smarimccarthy.is/about/
• https://immi.is/Home
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
• https://ecodis.net/

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