[DetectDefect]

Why is that strange? Technology's proliferation decentralizes political power nexuses, making it a near-existential threat to tyrants^Wgovernments everywhere.

[pixl97]

conversely

>Technology's proliferation centralizes political power nexuses

[DetectDefect]

Closed-source propriety systems certainly have this effect (subjugation), but this is not the Free technology I am talking about.

[pixl97]

Data and code are not the same thing. "Free technology" is just as free to enslave you as closed technology is.

[freedomben]

> Data and code are not the same thing.

feels a stir in the sea. The Lisp and Haskell people died a little inside