{"id":13865,"date":"2014-08-17T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2014-08-17T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T00:35:26","slug":"whos-getting-rich-off-profit-driven-clicktivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13865","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Getting Rich Off Profit-Driven &#8216;Clicktivism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This reflects how today&#8217;s internet, despite its potential as a Democratizing Tool, is controlled by the few. Look at mobile\u2014most apps have to go through Apple and Google&#8217;s not-always transparent approval process to be placed on their app stores and become visible to millions of smartphone users. The featured petitions on\u00a0Change.org, currently a private &#8220;B&#8221; corporation, (a voluntary, non-binding certification which means they met the nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcorporation.net\/community\/changeorg\">B Lab\u2019s standards<\/a> for social and environmental performance) are similarly controlled not by its millions of users but its CEO and founder Ben Rattray, and, according to a spokesperson, a global \u201cLeadership Team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/whos-getting-rich-off-profit-driven-clicktivism\">Who\u2019s Getting Rich Off Profit-Driven &#8216;Clicktivism&#8217; | Motherboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reflects how today&#8217;s internet, despite its potential as a Democratizing Tool, is controlled by the few. Look at mobile\u2014most apps have to go through Apple and Google&#8217;s not-always transparent approval process to be placed on their app stores and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442,308,734],"class_list":["post-13865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-model","tag-startups","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13866,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions\/13866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}