Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Of course, *now* these fights are all about real things. *Now* we need to worry about ...
Of course, *now* these fights are all about real things. *Now* we need to worry about centralization, interoperability, lock-in, surveillance, speech, and repair. But the people - like me - who've been fighting over this stuff for a quarter-century? We've gone from "unserious fools who mistook tech battles for human rights fights" to "useful idiots for tech companies" in an eyeblink.
"Premature Internet Activists," in other words.
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