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This is meta but... Most politically interested people who aren't techies never really understood a lot of really important ideas from the "technology, power a
by dalbasal 6y ago
This is meta but...
Most politically interested people who aren't techies never really understood a lot of really important ideas from the "technology, power and freedom" section of the library. Consider these titles:
- "Why Linux, Wikipedia & WWW are existence proof
for anarcho-communism/-capitalism"
- "Youtube & Twitter are protocol squatters"
- "RSS podcasting, the last free online media"
These don't mean anything to most people, and it's hard to get them to care. "Net Neutrality" did make its way to politics, but in a much bastardized form and most people never understood it.. even reporters and such.
OTOH, the political and economic of datasets is instinctively understood by non-tech people. The average person (certainly reporter) is highly in-tune to the political importance of imagenet's Categories for Bad Person. Ownership of the datasets. Control over contents. etc. Often ahead of tech-oriented people.
The person who struggled understanding "free as in speech" applied to software sounds like Stallman on chivas when the conversation is about datasets. Interesting.