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Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising. More of a truism than a license to all the things.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising Except information left alone doesn’t become free, it degrades. It takes energy to preserve it in an accessible form. That, in turn, tends towards making it very much not free.
  • gopher_space 2y ago
    That was an analogy to explain the simile. Homily? Anyhow, we're personifying information to make a statement on how people communicate. People naturally want to share information. We self-organize around the idea.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > People naturally want to share information. We self-organize around the idea. Except we don’t. We heavily filter and censor what we share for a variety of reasons. When people freely share their every thought you get Twitter, not civilisation.