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See also https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/ https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/ Stallman (and others e.g. Lessig) had clear visions of where the
by morelisp 5y ago
See also https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/ https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/
Stallman (and others e.g. Lessig) had clear visions of where they wanted to be but were thoroughly stuck in an end-of-history mindset - "we'll do the work to get this small part of society from A to B, and then we'll be at B." Well, no, then someone is going to drag parts back to A, and another is going to drag a few over to C, and after a few steps of this your rhetoric around digital freedom is going to be half fueling the propaganda of the largest, most powerful corporations in American history, and half the weak intellectual justification for a right-wing populist riot.
- dmfb 5y agoAwesome article!!! So glad I posted this comment and you replied. This article seriously rules!
- morelisp 5y agoThen you might also appreciate the other two entries in the trifecta of leftist writing about SV that usually get me greyed out: https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozo... https://www.e-flux.com/journal/70/60567/the-vectoralist-class-part-ii/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/70/60567/the-vectoralist-clas...