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I would argue the greater mistake was rebranding #freesoftware and forming a dull corporate entity known as the #opensourceinitiative. Open source as a term* has always been poorly defined despite being legally identical to Free/Libre; and the ideas of #freeculture #cyberlibertarian and #freespeech cannot be divorced from #freelibresoftware

*(referring to how its colloquially spoken— neither word in "open source" implies or evokes freedom in any way; it sounds more like "source available" than #liberty to me.)

linuxrocks.online/@freedomtux/ ( x.com/esrtweet/status/18868943 ) @esrtweet

LinuxRocks.OnlineJoshua M 🇦🇺 (@freedomtux@linuxrocks.online)https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1886894357451866309 “One of my regrets about my years of being Mr. Famous Guy, when I had maximum leadership leverage, is that I didn't foresee the political threat to open source. I thought it was enough to be apolitical, invite everybody to be part of our development community, and that everybody would continue to keep politics out of the coding. Including even my own libertarian politics. If I had known what was coming, I would have made a big deal about insisting that the open source community had to have one positive political value: free speech and opposition to censorship. That would have been justified on the object level, because we can't function when those political conditions are violated.” — @esrtweet (x.com) @esrtweet@bird.makeup #freesoftware #freeculture #foss #floss #opensource #OSI #freesoftwarefoundation #freelibre #freespeech #censorship #anticensorship #freethought #antiwoke

@parismarx schreibt in diesem englischen Artikel über die jahrelange Prägung der Internetpolitik von einer libertären Denkweise. Regierungen, nicht Unternehmen, waren die große Bedrohung, was die heutige Unternehmensdystopie ermöglichte.

Um ein besseres Internet zu schaffen, müssen wir diese Sichtweise hinterfragen und die Kontrolle über unsere digitale Technologie zurückgewinnen

disconnect.blog/reclaiming-sov

Disconnect · Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital ageCyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet

"The internet is at an inflection point.
Nothing shows that more than the recent arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France and the #Xban in Brazil.
This movement is more widespread than it might otherwise appear.
There has been minimal outrage over the #XBan outside the right-wing echo chamber…
For a long time, it was hard to push back against an understanding of the internet framed through an #individualist and #antistatist #cyberlibertarian lens…"
@parismarx
disconnect.blog/reclaiming-sov

Disconnect · Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital ageCyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet

The "#cyberlibertarian framing of #digitalpolitics and its focus on speech over political economy has proved beneficial for tech companies for many years. As US tech firms went global, digital activists frequently opposed government efforts to regulate or restrict tech platforms as threats to their citizens’ digital rights and freedom of expression, largely ignoring the economic impacts of US economic imperialism in those countries."
@parismarx disconnect.blog/pavel-durov-an

Disconnect · Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech championsThe actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech

surprisingly nuanced and balanced coverage of the (very good & accurate) judgment in the #InternetArchive "National Emergency Library" case, with both authors and librarians quoted who see through IA's long-term #cyberlibertarian shell game to deprive creators of rights to what we create.

CEO of Author's Guild: "We totally appreciate the fact that some authors don’t care about making money from their books. But it’s got to be the author’s choice.” insidehighered.com/news/2023/0 #copyright #Google

www.insidehighered.comA legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lendingA federal judge’s ruling for book publishers delivered a swift verdict that has significant implications for librarians, writers and limits of digital libraries.

"It’s so easy to get seduced by these technologies. They feel like magic. You put in a prompt; the oracle replies. There’s a natural impulse to ooh and aah. But at the rate things are going now, we may be oohing and aahing our way to a future no one wants."

very good debunking of typical #cyberlibertarian dogma, here with regard to #AI #GenerativeAI #GPT #GPT4 #GPT3 #regulation #democracy by @sigalsamuel

vox.com/the-highlight/23621198

VoxThe AI arms race is on. But we should slow down AI progress instead.By Sigal Samuel

#copyright is one of the main leading edges that makes up the core of #cyberlibertarian dogma. it is an effort to strip creators of their intellectual property rights, and replace them with a doctrine of raw power: whoever has the power to take something from someone else should be able to do it.

it needs to portray copyright owners as "giants" & those who benefit from stealing creator materials--Google, Facebook, etc--as "little guys."

cui bono?

1/ if #InternetArchive has managed to convince you that their effort to strip authors of #copyright is a "battle for libraries," I suggest reading and thinking more.

it is shocking (not shocking) to see how easily this #cyberlibertarian #disinformation spreads.

Internet Archive is attacking one of the bases on which actual libraries operate.

& to be clear, this suit has NOTHING to do with the Wayback Machine.

it has to do with IA illegally distributing published, copyrighted books.

pioneering civil rights attorney Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw@twitter) files suit in dystopian antidemocratic hellscape Great Britain, where the lack of #Section230 protections means platforms might be sued for enabling sex trafficking of minors.

#Omegle, Golderberg's team says, "was able to become a 'hunting ground for predators' because of the random matching system & the lack of warnings or age verification."

Omegle founder offers typical #cyberlibertarian denials.

bbc.com/news/technology-646187

BBC NewsOmegle: Suing the website that matched me with my abuser'Alice' was groomed on a video chat website - her lawsuit against it could have far-reaching consequences.