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by QuasarOne 1372 days ago
I'm all for openness. Open standards for example. But 'open information' never worked; and never will. Powerful interests want to control information. They did it in Communist states. They do it in Capitalist states. They even do it on 'Anarchist' Wikipedia. That doesn't mean to say I favour closed off information. I just think people need to understand that - in opening up information and discourse - we are up against powerful interests = other people. Many of them are fithy rich and they desire to tell us what to think, read and say - because they "care" about us and "know what's best" for us.