Protect me from what I want

Re:Protect me from what I want by californiadreem on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:18PM (#33778949)

Ah, the halcyon days of thrusting off the shackles of capitalism to have freedom in a decentralized digital environment where a new Social Contract is being negotiated! There's no way our idealism will feed a new class of nouveau riche that will sacrifice community ideals for profit.

Or to be more clear, Google ("Don't Be Evil") was founded in the same year that John Perry Barlow published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996). Barlow is dead and so is his dream. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

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Re:Protect me from what I want by wallfacer120 on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:23PM (#33779009)

i wonder if there's a single ill in the world that you don't lay at the feet of "corporations."

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Re:Protect me from what I want by californiadreem on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:32PM (#33779152)

Commenting on the naïveté of Mastodon users is a strange way to affirm any position regarding corporations, but your unsolicited reply is pretty clear that you like them.

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Re:Protect me from what I want by californiadreem on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:29PM (#33779989)

I think you might enjoy these (if you haven't already read them recently):

https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-11/ https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-and-dionysus/

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Re:Protect me from what I want by dang on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:57AM (#33784811)

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