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It's not even that. This is an ideological fight we should be having. Code is speech and code should be protected by all like free speech is under the first ame

by atomi 6y ago

It's not even that. This is an ideological fight we should be having. Code is speech and code should be protected by all like free speech is under the first amendment. This is modern day book burning.

ravi-delia 6y ago
I'm pretty sure books have been protected by copyright too for a while now.
- deleted 6y ago
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- atomi 6y ago
  Not to confuse the point, this is about your right to publish your own code.
valtism 6y ago
That seems like an overly simplistic view of what code is, and what code can be.
- atomi 6y ago
  It's the opposite of simplistic. I believe the developer's constitutional rights were violated and I would contact the EFF and ACLU for help. For some context, at one point: > the US government designated encryption software as a "munition" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
ChrisLomont 6y ago
Free speech has limitations. If code is speech, then don’t those limitations also apply to code?