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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Without the mention of FOSS, these types of pro-market "solutions" will always end up dead in the water.

This is not just a matter of competition for its own sake. This is about guaranteeing users the fundamental right to technological self-determination, a right that corporate monopolists will not yield willingly. This is nothing less than empowering users to seize the means of computation.

Can't have tech self-determination if everything's a black box controlled by corporate entities.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of liberals and libertarians involved in FOSS, to the point where some FOSS and FOSS-adjacent media (ie 'Slashdot') is practically unreadable. Even the most (in)famous FOSS advocate, Richard Stallman, has appeared on Infowars and is reportedly a sex pest. But there are comrades involved in FOSS too, and there are obvious benefits from avoiding corpo lock-in and corpo spyware (what they call 'telemetry'), so... there's that.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Richard Stallman, has appeared on Infowars and is reportedly a sex pest.

He was kicked out of MIT for defending Epstein so yeah. Classic libertarian.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Besides how fucked up that is, that is the quintessence of "weird hill to die on".

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