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Seize the Means of Computation (www.promarket.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by savoy@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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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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[–] TrankieHammer@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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.

[–] facow@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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.

[–] hkto@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stallman is pretty much one of us, actually. He has a relationship with Cuba, opposes US sanctions, and literally invented copyleft licensing.

Use the search bar on his site for "Cuba": https://stallman.org/

[–] dxpvanishing@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

He at least supports Julian Assange, but he supports many other causes of US imperialism (in the first political note on his website as of now, he claims that Russia blew up the dam), supported the invasion of Afghanistan, and called the Chinese population brainwashed slaves. I would consider him a slightly more enlightened radlib if anything.

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