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Next ALSO REALLY BIG POINT:

It's one thing to have an institutional instance (whether admined by the institution, or provided as a hosted service a la Google Mail), it's another to:

* be sure that Mastodon is a secure service that meets the institution's eg security, privacy, trust and safety needs. That's a new, big lift!

* have the capacity to act on eg law enforcement requests (especially eg when the instance is open to users other than staffers, like readers)

Second BIG point:

Institutional instances -- WITHOUT AGREEMENT FROM EMPLOYEES (and preferably from union representation!) -- would by default preserve the employer/employee power imbalance.

Institutions and journalists share an interest in proving identity. They also obviously have diverging needs and incentives.

Journos/staffers are free agents. Their network must be portable. Their content must also be preserved.

I don't have an answer for this, save that it must be negotiated.

First: like I write in my original proposal, institutional instances inheriting trust from existing domains is additive and works alongside existing verification methods like rel=me link verification.

Institutional instances don't supplant that, and rel=me link verification is obviously an easier lift.

Now, I have a few VERY big reasons why an institution ought not to rush into running its own instance.

Some caveats/base assumptions: I'm writing here mainly about two kinds of instance: (1) an institutional instance for only staffers and (2) an institutional instance (e.g. subdomain) which also allows open/non-staffer users.

... and then in s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition, I write about reasons why an organization wouldn't want to run* their own instance, or why running such an instance might be needless.

* "run" here means have a Mastodon (or other activitypub/social network service), not necessarily administer. Hosted services make sense. My personal instance is hosted.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e19-just-because-we-can-doesnt-necessarily/

But, there's more:

I followed up the proposal for news organizations to stand up their own social media/Mastodon servers with a couple more newsletter episodes of notes.

In s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices, I write about the high-level implications of instance moderation, choice, and opinionated software -- in this case, opinionated software and opinionated platforms.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your-7233/

Now seems like a pretty good time to re-link my proposal from October that news organizations stand up Mastodon servers.

In the proposal, I explain why a news organization (and other organizations) might want to have their own Mastodon (or other social network service) hosted on their subdomain, e.g. follow.washingtonpost.com.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/

#news#journalism#newsmedia#mastodon#agency

Elizabeth Warren talking up crypto regulation

Neonazis im Schwiegersohn-Look: Die «Junge Tat» versucht ihre Themen in die Mitte der Gesellschaft zu tragen.

Wo sich die Gruppe ideologisch verorten lässt und wer die Köpfe dahinter sind, haben Kevin Brühlmann, @jikh und @jan_jirat recherchiert.

#JungeTat#Winterthur#Schweiz#Rechtsextremismus#Identitäre#Antifa

https://www.woz.ch/2250/rechtsextremismus/rechtsextremismus-die-schwiegersohn-neonazis/%21JJPNM2QWZACD

Faesers Innenministerium für umfassende Chat-Überwachung

"Seit längerer Zeit wird über die Massenüberwachung von Chats auf EU-Ebene diskutiert. In der deutschen Regierung gibt es darüber nun Streit, wobei sich das verhandelnde Innenministerium über den Koalitionsvertrag hinweg setzt...."

Zum ganzen Artikel: ➤ https://perspektive-online.net/?p=42647

#Faeser#SPD#Innenministerium#chatkontrolle#Überwachung#Kontrolle

RT @RussellBates@twitter.com

Good analysis here from @brianbeutler@twitter.com https://mailchi.mp/crooked.com/big-tent-19792?e=6e84ed47af

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RussellBates/status/1601363620213858306

You know, I see Trump’s point. If he or his factotums had to apologize every time they broke bread with Nazis they’d never be able to stop. Merry Christmas, Brett Kavanaugh, you fraud liar freak

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

On this day in 1986, Elie Wiesel delivered his timeless Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/10/elie-wiesel-nobel-prize-speech/

Dass die EU-Kommission die Totalüberwachung und digitale
Kontrolle im Internet genauso wie im Alltag, an ihren Außengrenzen zur Bekämpfung von fliehenden Menschen und im Inneren u.a. für den Datenkapitalismus weiter ausbaut, ist nichts Neues. Nicht nur besteht sie aus stramm neoliberalen, autoritären Politiker*innen, die schon zuvor immer wieder mit repressiven Vorhaben angekommen sind, es geht allgemein mit dem Überwachungs- und Krisenkapitalismus auch eine autoritäre Transformation einher.

Als Antiautoritäre stellen wir uns diesen Entwicklungen und Allen, die sie voranbringen wollen, entschlossen entgegen!

Dieses Statement haben wir im Mai 2022 verfasst

--> https://enough-is-enough14.org/2022/05/15/statement-zum-eu-verschluesselungsverbot-chatdurchleuchtungspflicht/

#EU#chatkontrolle#Überwachung#Digitalisierung#Repression#Autoritarisierung#antireport

Call for Papers:
Interest Groups and Advocacy (the official journal of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association) is seeking papers for a Special Issue on New Perspectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform.

Guest-edited by Raj Chari, Trinity College Dublin. Pls send abstracts by Feb 14th, 2023 to raj.chari@tcd.ie.

Find more information on how to submit here: http://palgrave.com/gp/journal/413

@politicalscience@communications@communicationscholars

On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @CrimethInc Twitter account.

Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move to silence opposition, paving the way for fascist violence.

Please help us circulate our full statement:

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBan

Please follow us on Telegram and Mastodon.

A pleasure. The institutional-pedagogical intersection is certainly a curious, hairy thing.

I don't work directly in philosophy in a disciplinary sense, but seeing your work and interests makes me think that I should add a group to this round-robin:

@pragmatism

Cheers!

Thanks. I’m intrigued. I started my teaching career at an interdisciplinary university. I was in a humanities department closely affiliated with social sciences. Unique to say the least. I started writing on G.H. Mead during this period.