Cory Doctorow on the War on General Computing
January 23, 2012
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This sums up in a brilliant way, hopefully a way that our politicians can actually understand, the evilness of the war on personal computing waged by corporations for the past 15 years upon ordinary people, precisely because of the freedom it has brought people.
The war on personal computing is very much like our modern version of the medieval inquisition, which was in direct reaction to the appearance of the printing press and the democratization of information it brought the general population.