Ranking Digital Rights

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= "seeks to rank large web companies on their efforts to preserve user interests".

URL = https://rankingdigitalrights.org/

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By Chelsea​ ​Barabas, Neha​ ​Narula and Ethan​ ​Zuckerman:

"Early efforts to promote informed consumer choice include Rebecca MacKinnon’s Ranking Digital Rights project, which seeks to rank large web companies on their efforts to preserve user interests. MacKinnon’s hope is that mega-platforms 56 like Facebook would be transformed from authoritarian “Internet sovereigns” into a sort of accountable ruling class, who are beholden to the needs of their loyal subjects.57 Work like this is a critical first step, but its success necessitates the presence of real, comparable alternatives in the market of online publishing. To date, this has proven quite difficult to achieve. Very few users choose networks for ideological reasons–they choose based on usability, features and where their friends are publishing. That means these competitive platforms need to be as good–or probably much better–than existing leaders to invite migration." (http://dci.mit.edu/assets/papers/decentralized_web.pdf)