A Meta alternative could serve the public instead of private interests
A Meta alternative could serve the public instead of private interests
As Mark Zuckerberg’s platforms block Canadian news, it’s time to consider how to build alternative platforms that serve the public interest
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Lovely thesis, weird title.
[Canada Post]'s large physical infrastructure and entrenched history in Canadian life could make Canada Post an ideal host for server farms.
Same could be said for almost every other government owned company? BoC and CBC would have been less weird examples, at least pick a company that is obviously linked to digital infrastructure.
Same could be said for almost every other government owned company?
Could it? I can't think of any reason why the BoC or CBC would have large physical infrastructure (i.e. warehouses), especially ones seeing less and less use, ripe to be turned into data centres.
at least pick a company that is obviously linked to digital infrastructure.
Canada Post probably has some of the more interesting digital infrastructure of all the crown corps. The technology that is able to read the chicken scratches on envelopes and figure out where they need to go continues to amaze.
This sounds like the perfect solution to add onto their hundreds of millions of dollars in losses..
A public service doesn’t make losses, they’re a cost.
They aren't a public service, they are a crown corporation. Which, other than being owned by the federal government, is operated just like any other private or publicly owned corporation. Their operations are funded by their revenues, not taxpayer funds, so no they aren't a cost. They also just posted a Q2 before tax loss of $254 million. Which is a continual spiral down for a corporation that was profitable until 2018, due to a series of horrendous leadership and questionable decisions.
Ah, mea culpa, I posted in ignorance.
What should we do to change it?