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| schestowitz | > Richard Stallman wrote: | Jan 12 03:08 |
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| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:08 |
| schestowitz | >> I think that the loss of freedom is deeper and more important, | Jan 12 03:08 |
| schestowitz | >> but the security issue is the best way to explain in 20 seconds | Jan 12 03:08 |
| schestowitz | >> to someone I don't know. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > My contention would be that security appeals to fear - to what people | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > stand to lose at the hands of others. Whereas access appeals to | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > unrealised opportunity, so is a more positive message. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > Teaching cybersecurity has taught me that people are deeply cynical | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > about "security" in general, The word carries an implication of lies, | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > effort and disempowerment. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > Freedom, while more positive in tone, is vague. People wave their | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > hands at abstract "freedom" because there's nothing to grasp ahold of. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > Access on the other hand gives a solid, meaningful object. It says; | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > "Some people have access to this. You don't. That's unfair. Here's | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > how you fix it" | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > I need two hands to count the number of times per day I am made to | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > feel like a second class citizen. In dealings with government, schools | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > and businesses, I am left standing out in the cold because I choose to | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > exercise my most basic rights to be ethical and not to support | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > injustice. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > The focus has shifted. It is no longer about whether people will join | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > the project for software freedom. They will. The exodus from Big Tech | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > is real and around us today. The new focus is the_consequences_ for | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > those who choose the right path. A million people recently shifted to | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > "Mastadon", but are drifting back to Twitter, heads held low, because | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > they were not prepared for the consequences of being more free. | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > This phenomena needs wider recognition. If not "accessibility" or | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > "equality" then how to we frame it? | Jan 12 03:09 |
| schestowitz | > Ralph Nader's Capitol Hill Citizen has been updated, so the January 2023 | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > issue can be ordered. | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.capitolhillcitizen.com/ <https://www.capitolhillcitizen.com/> | Jan 12 03:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.capitolhillcitizen.com | Homepage - Capitol Hill Citizen | Jan 12 03:10 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > Russell Mokhiber told me that he wanted to put my story in the January | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > 2023 issue, but I don't know if it is. | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > I never had any further contact to ask for more details. But, maybe | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > what I provided was sufficient. | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > Nowever, maybe they decided to not put the story in the paper. | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:10 |
| schestowitz | > I'm ordering one today. I'll let you know if my story is in it. | Jan 12 03:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 12 03:11 |
| schestowitz | > I think they'll send one to you in Europe if you want a copy. | Jan 12 03:11 |
| schestowitz | Thanks, let's first see if that's included in there. I think Nader very seldom speaks of patents (from what I saw). | Jan 12 03:11 |
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