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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

There was a time when Ron Paul was viewed as less of a libertarian nut job, and more an amusing libertarian with a weirdly enthusiastic following on the Internet.

Cory doctorow is a technologist who was influential in the late 2000s influencing how a lot of technology was built by talking about it's potential for collaboration and openness.
In an era where "blogging" was new, he was a proponent for it in a notable way.

So it's essentially a pile of late 2000s Internet references made into a silly narrative.