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would you rather be an agent with agency or a subject flopping around helplessly complaining? authority doesn't have to be bad. you're projecting

• AnaniasAnanas 7y ago
  "agents with agency" are people like Snowden. > or a subject flopping around helplessly complaining? Good thing, people like Stallman, Assange, DJB, Washington, Jefferson, etc did not flop around helplessly complain, they actually acted. Without DJB specifically it would still be unlawful for you to publish your dosycrypt library for example.
  • dosy 7y ago
    Snowden was definitely an agent. Agency? Jury's out. There's a difference between being effective, GW, TJ, and stupidly ineffective, JA, RS. Or just plain stupid, ES. Interesting about DJB, I did not know that story.
    • AnaniasAnanas 7y ago
      How was Snowden "plain stupid" exactly? "stupidly ineffective" - well, one has to start from somewhere. Plus stallman's work was far from ineffective. As for assange's work, the publication of the war crimes might have saved thousands of civilian lives.
      • dosy 7y ago
        Snowden was a pawn, taken in by savior complex. Stallman made zero impact. Assange had no effect on war policy. He was also a pawn entrapped by savior complex.