[_m19m]

Just a reminder, you can learn more about the folks behind Urbit, their objections to democracy, women's suffrage, and general agenda at http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

[toy_car]

It should be noted that:

- the other members of the urbit team are not Curtis. 'Folks' is incorrect.

- this is an extremely biases article whose publisher's political views are directly the opposite of those being written about. This is not an objective primary source by any measure.

[defen]

So if you were around in the 50s, would you have argued against using transistors because Bill Shockley was a racist and eugenicist?

[notthemessiah]

Transistors aren't a technology for eugenics. Urbit is a technology for neocameralism.

[TruthAndDare]

> objections to democracy

I'm afraid that doesn't say much. Are they striving for more centralized power (a dictator holding the power over everybody) or less centralized power (no one having the right to decide over other people)?

[trbvm2]

They did name the network leader Zod