JJ Pollet zegt:

“I love the idea of the cloud, but I hate the reality of it. The reality of it is nothing like what’s been promised to us. Trusting the cloud is a mistake: it’s too centralized, too easily blocked, too easily controlled. And it’s privatized, owned, and administrated by someone other than you. The cloud is presumed to be all around us, advertised as “your data when you want it.” But when I travel, finding unlocked wifi connections anywhere on the globe (with the exception of, surprisingly, Starbucks) is impossible. Instead, when I’m in, say, Barcelona, I’m forced to use 3G at $20/mb. And if I wanted to access my rich media materials on “my cloud,” I’m forced to pay dearly for the privilege. And free isn’t always free: I often encounter a highly censored, “family friendly” cloud on Amtrak or similar modes of transportation, which trump their “hotspot” connections as ways of filling their seats. Aside from content restrictions, their clouds work sporadically and slowly, if they work at all. Streaming media is as censored and tightly controlled as the cloud. YouTube or SoundCloud are not benevolent or free: they are massive entities seeking equally massive profits, out to control, remove and censor content. (YouTube actually has an algorithm which sniffs out anything in the shape of a cunt or cock and removes it, whether it is anatomical or not). Their free is not free; it’s a hook, a means to their end. We’re all dazzled by free. But in commercial culture, there is no free.”