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		fauigerzigerk 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We should have the ability to run any code we want... Yes, but to me there is a very big difference between being forced to adopt a class of technologies (online services in general) along with the rest of society and being forced to contract with a handful of specific companies that impose extremely one-sided contractual terms on everybody, touching almost every aspect of life.

eMPee584 3 months ago [–]

Yes, but both permutations of digital coercion suck, right? ^^D

fauigerzigerk 3 months ago | [–]

General technological progress may well suck in some cases, but it's not coercion.

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