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Usually when I throw out a somewhat crazy idea, it remains just that\u2014a somewhat crazy idea, out there in the ether. But when I proposed in The Guardian<\/em> recently that maybe Twiter users should buy Twitter<\/a> rather than letting it get sold to another big company, something else happened. People started organizing<\/a>. It has become the latest outgrowth of the platform co-op movement that’s the subject of my new book with Trebor Scholz (and 60+ contributors), Ours to Hack and to Own<\/em>, available for preorder from OR Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then RT a tweet about it here!<\/a><\/p>\n <\/center>Meanwhile, here’s a bit more about what I’m up to.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Okay, that’s it. Take heart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually when I throw out a somewhat crazy idea, it remains just that\u2014a somewhat crazy idea, out there in the ether. But when I proposed in The Guardian recently that maybe Twiter users should buy Twitter rather than letting it get sold to another big company, something else happened. People started organizing. It has become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,101,58,50,69],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-imagination","tag-responsibility","tag-technology","tag-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sign the petition at wearetwitter.global<\/a><\/h3>\n
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