"Council should set examples when it comes to climate change, Brown said, adding: "The Government have got to provide a bit of leadership there. If we do have a climate emergency, why can I go and buy a Dodge Ram?"

That statement hasn't aged well... 🤦🏾‍♂️
#CodeBrown #AucklandMayor
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/19/auckland-mayoralty-wayne-browns-long-list-of-fixes/

Is anyone listening to #CodeBrown #MayorBrown making excuses for his pathetic fail? Fortunately PM Chippy has taken control and handling it like a leader. #NZPol #Auckland

#CodeBrown #Auckland should have a snap Mayoral election. You can #NeverTrustaTory

@lightweight I think I mostly agree with you.

I'm finding the message / messaging ... confusing.

Thoughts:

• Proprietary software creates numerous perverse incentives. These vary by scale, from very small (e.g., mobile apps) to large (office suite software, enterprise databases / accounting systems).

• Different SW domains also have different dynamics. Again, mobile apps, desktop, consumer SaaS, Surveillance Capitalism Web 2.0 social surveillance media, Web3 cyrptocurrency Ponzi scams, spyware and malware (the scourge of the early aughts has returned with a vengence in the late teens and early 20s), and more.

• Proprietising data, users, formats, content, channels, protocols, and more, all tend to splinter and create adversarial relationships both between vendors and vendors and users.

• Don't get me started on DRM.

The #CodeBrown metaphor would suggest there's an exclusion effect. I see alternatives under Free Software / Open Protocols / Decentralised Web as not ... entirely ... excluded. Though I'd say they face an uphill battle.

I'm not seeing this expressed in what you've written. I think it's part of what you're trying to say.