Authoritarianism of Code

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austin-cheney · 9h ago

This seems unnecessary. Authoritarianism is a name for centralized control.

The solution then is fighting centralization as aggressively as possible. The most opposite of centralization is point-to-point communication by identity of preshared hashes.

You aren’t going to fight authoritarianism using social media or web servers. Those are points of centrality.

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Authoritarianism of Code

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