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It's very easy to disagree. The Internet was used quite effectively for Arab Spring. It's effective enough that turning it off is a key tactic used by oppresso
by zdp7 2y ago
It's very easy to disagree. The Internet was used quite effectively for Arab Spring. It's effective enough that turning it off is a key tactic used by oppressors. I also suspect his typewriter use rapes our forest far beyond what a Raspberry Pi or any low wattage SBC and e paper monitor does. Both solar and a human powered generators would be much more environmentally concious than producing paper and ink. The computer is a tool. It can be used for good or bad. Computers don't create the bad things, people do.
- zdp7 2y agoJust to note this is from the perspective of him reiterating the thought in 2019.