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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2017 01:44:10 EDT

  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 22:27:10 EDT Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
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    • Free Software Foundation
    @fsf The phrase "Free as in Freedom" is more meaningful today than ever before. We often talk of users being "robbed" of their freedoms by non-free software, but many users aren't provided the opportunity to have something to be robbed of to begin with. Nearly everything users do is controlled and surveilled by corporations and governments as a feature, by default. Non-free software exposes and exfiltrates the most intimate aspects of our lives---it explores our thoughts, sits in our living rooms, and understands us better than we understand ourselves. Children are exposed to and taught to love and accept these software and devices before they can even crawl.

    I've never felt more liberated by #freesoftware. But I've also never felt more concerned and sympathetic for users who are caught up in all of this. Most users don't even know that there are things to be concerned _of_, let alone where to even begin, despite the best intentions and predictions of many within our community.

    And I've also never felt more compelled to do something about it.
    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Oct-2017 22:27:10 EDT from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
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