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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Given the same talk since 2020, people love to turn an archive into a hostage situation

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure-presentation/?slideIndex=3

thought experiment: say we upload all data onto AWS... [chat with AWS support] Sign Up for Science Prime! Subscribe to stream exclusive datasets from elite labs! We're proud to announce a new data sharing agreement with ICE! [chat with uncle Sam] hey amazon, what if you pay taxes? what if i deleted all scientific knowledge? 😘 [quote] Google or some similar corporate entity [...] will come along with its deep pockets, and integrate each segment into one grand proprietary Science 2.0 platform. Who would not then want to own the obligatory online passage point for the bulk of modern scientific research? -Philip Mirowski (2010)"The Future(s) of Open Science"