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0 pointsmsiyer7y ago0 comments

You sound like an agent of the system. The authoritarian mindset is the reason why the whole system is so violent and morally bankrupt.

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dosy7y ago· 2 in thread

would you rather be an agent with agency or a subject flopping around helplessly complaining? authority doesn't have to be bad. you're projecting

"agents with agency" are people like Snowden.

> or a subject flopping around helplessly complaining?

Good thing, people like Stallman, Assange, DJB, Washington, Jefferson, etc did not flop around helplessly complain, they actually acted.

Without DJB specifically it would still be unlawful for you to publish your dosycrypt library for example.

dosy7y ago

Snowden was definitely an agent. Agency? Jury's out.

There's a difference between being effective, GW, TJ, and stupidly ineffective, JA, RS. Or just plain stupid, ES.

Interesting about DJB, I did not know that story.

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