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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by nradov on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:47AM (#18725298)
That's a nice fantasy but the reality is that humans and computers still have to physically exist inside national boundaries. Flesh and steel still count for a lot.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:54PM (#18728505)
That's why free/libre software advocates talk so frequently about technologies that could abstract flesh and steel away.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by nradov on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:22PM (#18729238)
How exactly would that work?
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by kaveh_h on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:58PM (#18730653)
Tor, bittorrent, bitcoin and other decentrialized open source software are great examples. No government can control what no one controls.
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