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Filternets are not precision-guided takedown machines; they're indiscriminate cluster-bombs that destroy anything in the vicinity of illegal speech – including (and *especially*) the best-informed, most informative discussions of how these systems go wrong, and how that blocks the complaints of the powerless, the marginalized, and the abused.
Copyright Takedowns Are a Cautionary Tale That Few Are Heeding
Cory Doctorow
There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
People in these societies no longer care about one another. I don’t mean that in an abstract way. I mean it in a lethally real one. They no longer care whether others live or die. That is what it means when Americans deny each other healthcare. That is what it means when Brits think a drink at the pub or a street party is more important than stopping the spread of a lethal virus.
The New Leaders of the 21st Century
umair haque
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