Without the mention of FOSS, these types of pro-market “solutions” will always end up dead in the water.

This is not just a matter of competition for its own sake. This is about guaranteeing users the fundamental right to technological self-determination, a right that corporate monopolists will not yield willingly. This is nothing less than empowering users to seize the means of computation.

Can’t have tech self-determination if everything’s a black box controlled by corporate entities.

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    Frankly I’m hesitant about FOSS as a movement these days. It has a libertarian bent a mile wide (actually giving your license clauses that stop people from doing harm with your software in various ways makes it “no longer free”), is poorly applicable to the actual user, and doesn’t care about anything other than itself (free software should be intersectional but the FSF continues to champion and cater to white men and sex pests)

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      There are a lot of liberals and libertarians involved in FOSS, to the point where some FOSS and FOSS-adjacent media (ie ‘Slashdot’) is practically unreadable. Even the most (in)famous FOSS advocate, Richard Stallman, has appeared on Infowars and is reportedly a sex pest. But there are comrades involved in FOSS too, and there are obvious benefits from avoiding corpo lock-in and corpo spyware (what they call ‘telemetry’), so… there’s that.

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        Richard Stallman, has appeared on Infowars and is reportedly a sex pest.

        He was kicked out of MIT for defending Epstein so yeah. Classic libertarian.