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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgy 14 Apr \ parent \ on: Reasons not to use Apple: Stallman security
I guess he also never understood why anarchists like FOSS.
The word free is quite messed up in the English language. He rightly distinguishes between free as in free beer from free as in freedom, but free might also include free from governments and oppressive rulership.
In his mind big cooperation are evil but Western democracy are not. However big cooperation not really serving customers anymore are not possible without the latter (also called fascism). That is missing in his considerations.
Many people are confusing "freedom" with liberty".
Freedom means this:
Meanwhile liberty means practically a privilege for citizens.
Only sovereign individuals can have freedom.
Citizens have "liberties" aka priviliges.
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