An excerpt from an email I’ve been writing: As for “the right to be forgotten,†I strongly disagree that this is important. First of all, no one has “the right†to be forgotten. The framing of this as a “right†is incredibly dangerous because it is by definition a way to describe other people’s memories …
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No one understands what censorship even means, because they are being censored
I’ve been enjoying my brief but focused time in The Federation and away from corporate social media so far. (“The Federation” is what we nerds who love freedom and, by extension, free software, call the distributed social network outside corporate-controlled filter bubble prisons like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.) Oh sure, there’s the usual Internet asshole …
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