Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 5:00
Sir Tom Burners Lee is reinventing the Internet with the Solid Project https://solidproject.org
I remember the days where in the beginning other internet was referred to as the Return of the Wild Wild West. Well, as we know, Tim Berners Lee was the inventor of the Internet, and Tim Berners Lee, who is at MIT, has for about nine months now, left MIT to work on something called the Solid Project. It's a Httpssolidprojectorg
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 0:46
So I'm curious about your thoughts about it and see whether we can expand this conversation, not just about banning Donald Trump, but overall accountability for our words and actions on how that would happen online. I think this is an interesting perspective and project that he's left MIT. He's been working it for nine months
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 2:14
Tim Berners Lee his approach is a broader approach. What Jack Dorsey is doing with funding an open standard for social media, I think, is a good move forward. So it'd be interesting to see how this continues to evolve. I'll put a link to the Twitter thread where he talks about Blue Sky and you can follow Blue Sky as well as the CTO of Twitter so that you can keep up to date in terms of how this is going
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 1:45
I'm going to have to do more reading on it. I listen to your I listen to this couple of days ago, but I've just been crazy busy, crazy, crazy busy and spending time with the kids. But anyway, I'm glad to do more research further, but I like the idea of just thinking of the Internet in a different way. It doesn't have to be one way different interpretations of it. So, yeah, I kind of like that model
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 1:24
Between what Tim Berners Lee is doing and the Blue Sky project at Twitter, there's some exciting stuff coming up. It's going to be very interesting over the next year or two to see how this unfolds
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 1:09
And I think the time is coming through Web standards for the individual not to just simply accept all cookies, but to give away data to Facebook or Instagram or Google based on the level of surveillance, self surveillance that an individual wants and the pod structure that would allow that to happen. So I'm very interested to see where this goes. Thank you, Dewuan. Thank you, Greg, for raising these things
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 2:52
I think that accountability, the fact that you couldn't post anything if you couldn't post anything online without knowing it was attributed to you as a real person. I think it would create a greater sense of community and a greater sense of accountability because you couldn't escape the fact that you said something or did something just like we're seeing with the riots on January 6, it's up to about 300 people now have been charged, arrested and charged. It's going to continue
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:38
No longer do they hide behind Pseudonyms and simply just hide their activities from their public life. Their public life is shared now on social media. A lot would argue, and I definitely can see that. So with the age of anonymity coming to a close, in some instances, what is to become now of the future of the Internet? Will it be a standard that citizens will have to adhere to in order to get their driver's license or their state ID?