Cory Doctorow on Nostr: If you worried that Napster-era copyright battles would make it easy to remove online ...
If you worried that Napster-era copyright battles would make it easy to remove online content by claiming that it infringed copyright, you were just carrying water for music pirates. If you thought that legalizing and universalizing encryption technology would safeguard human rights, you were a fool who had no idea that *real* human rights battles involved confronting Bull Connor in the streets, not suing the NSA in a federal courtroom.
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