[trueismywork]

The idea is of general purpose computing. In past, you could restrict access without restricting most freedoms. Today's world, restricting access means restricting access to a ggeneral purpose computer. And thats the biggest deal.

[pwg]

Cory Doctorow:

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing

Jan 10, 2012

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

The article does reflect the issue at the time (the media mafia's boogeyman "piracy") and the thought that to prevent piracy, users must be restricted from access to "general purpose computers".

[techblueberry]

Does it? If we had real control of our machines it doesn’t feel like this would be an issue.