Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The cognitive dissonance of "no one wants this," and "we must make it illegal to get ...
The cognitive dissonance of "no one wants this," and "we must make it illegal to get this" is powerful, but motivated reasoning is more powerful. It is impossible to get Tim Cook to understand something when his $49 million paycheck depends on him not understanding it.
The War on General Purpose Computing has raged for decades. Computers, like the people who use them, stubbornly insist on being reality-based, and the reality of computers is that they *are* general purpose.
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