Today is my 22nd anniversary at @eff!22 years ago, I flew with two colleagues to LA and discovered an entertainment industry cartel conspiracy to ban #GeneralPurposeComputers. This led to a suit that killed the #FCC's #BroadcastFlag order. It was the defining day of my adult life.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/02/the-internet-heist-part-i/
If you want to wish me a happy EFF-aversary, you can join EFF and help pay the wages of people like me doing work like this:
As with Schmidt's desire to spy on you from asshole to appetite for his own personal gain, and his violent aversion to having his own personal life made public, the tech millionaires and billionaires who made their fortune from the flexibility of #GeneralPurposeComputers would like to *end* that flexibility. They insist that the time for general purpose computers has passed, and that today, "consumers" crave the simplicity of *appliances*:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/
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Cory Doctorow