Here is the story about the three little pigs and the Big Blonde Fascist.
The first little pig built her house on Apple products.
The second little pig built his house on Google products.
The third little pig built her house on #FreeSoftware and thus ensured she was in control of her own house.
The first two pigs made fun of the third pig: "why do you bother?" they said. "It's so much easier to do like us! It's so quick and so convenient!"
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@eliasr And when the Big Blonde Fascist uses their unrestrained power to ban and block all use of software and devices they cannot access? Institutes a Great Firewall of China equivalent? Reminds me a bit of the XKCD pipe wrench classic https://xkcd.com/538/ . Free software is great, but it won’t save us from fascism
@lingon as I see it, it's not that free software will save us completely but the fascist will need to physically enforce their oppression, as in physically taking my computer away from me. As opposed to the situation we have today, where 99% of people give away their freedom voluntarily. Free software makes it possible to make things more difficult for the fascist, as difficult as it should be.
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@lingon I think the issue of freedom vs authoritarianism fundamentally has nothing to do with computers or internet, the issue has existed since before electrocity was discovered and the issue is basically still the same as hundreds of years ago.
The difference now is that people use tech ina way that makes it much easier for a fascist to take and keep control. Because people behave like the first two little pigs in the story. We should not make things so easy for the fascist.
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