Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Or, put another way: people with power can claim rights. But giving powerless people ...

Or, put another way: people with power can claim rights. But giving powerless people more rights doesn't make them powerful - it just transfers those rights to the people they bargain against.

Or, put a third way: "just because you're on their side, it doesn't follow that they're on your side" (h/t Teresa Nielsen Hayden):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gander-sauce/#just-because-youre-on-their-side-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-on-your-side

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