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Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse (infrastructureinsights.fund)
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Three months ago I posted about the Atlantic Council’s interest in the controlling the fediverse: https://lemmy.ml/post/6641106

I think these projects are the continuation of the successful American “intelligence community” censorship of corporate social media platforms. They even tried to formalize the system two years ago as the Disinformation Governance Board.

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[–] garrett@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone’s researching governance in a federated environment and that’s scary because…?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] garrett@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

You all can downvote me but if you're not interested in living in the land of facts, demonstrating any attempt at backdooring Fediverse products beyond "bad money in a think tank", then there's literally not even the smoke to indicate a fire.

Can you share anything that indicates that understanding governance is even tangentially related to backdooring these products or the teams behind them? Is the best response really "wait four years and see"?

[–] garrett@infosec.pub -1 points 1 year ago

That hardly means they’re investigating how to take over instances… These egghead think tanks will do research on anything that matches a couple buzzwords and this is one of them.