Geert "Enteignet Google!" Lovink in seinem jüngsten Blogposting:

‘User generated content’ is nothing more than priceless noise: trash for the readers, gold for the shareholders. I recently had a debate with a Web 2.0 start-up owner who admitted for him user content would become irrelevant the moment he’d sell his company. We are working for his profit. (...) Profiles, recommendations, ratings, they are all data that contribute to the value of the company. (...) We should stop working for tomorrow’s bosses. It’s time to get a better understanding how to redistribute wealth and income in this ‘free’ and ‘open’ world. The uncritical praise of social networks, placed in opposition to the print and broadcast media, is merely replicating 1990s schemes and leaves no space for the critique of techno-libertarism. Soon the Web 2.0 boom will be over. Merely celebrating citizen content takes us away from the hard task to design the building blocks of a new digital utopianism that does provide fair living wages from cultural workers—and their reviewers.