Hello cypherpunks, Yesterday Foreign Policy published my new article advocating for a proposed global commons framework for public data collaboration. My article uses the controversy over the U.S. Tiktok ban legislation as a springboard to accurately bash other social media giants too -- and then discuss decoupling apps from databases as well as separating information into layers. Today, corporate-owned data, personal data, and public data are all hopelessly mixed together, but it doesn't have to be that way. Such as ecosystem as this would allow us, for example, to have boycott-assistance apps in our pockets, updating in real time, gamified with leaderboards for best boycotters, resistant to takedown by corporate interests. But that's just one potential application. Really, any collaboration with planetwide, dynamically updating public data that anyone could dream up would be possible, though not consequence-free of course. The paywall-jumping gift hyperlink to my article seems to function only sporadically, so I'll include an alternate hyperlink as well. Gift: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/27/biden-tiktok-bytedance-china-ban-getgee-knowledge-commons/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=YmlkZW4tdGlrdG9rLWJ5dGVkYW5jZS1jaGluYS1iYW4tZ2V0Z2VlLWtub3dsZWRnZS1jb21tb25z&pid=OC20506955 Alternate: https://archive.ph/9Ss1S