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Toward a Technological Cage for the Masses
For about two decades, beginning roughly in 1995, the average resident of the developed nations was given a gift, an unprecedented opportunity for free speech. This opportunity was made possible by the personal computer and the ability it provided to access an open, relatively unregulated Internet. Never before had the common man or woman had opportunities to express his or her views to large audiences unhindered by gatekeepers--whether they be newspaper editors, book editors, television programming directors, judges, or other government officials. The fact that this situation lasted as long as it did is astounding. But now, the natural order of things is returning. Now, the brief window of free speech is closing, and it is closing quickly.
Not only is the Internet being increasingly regulated and sectioned off into separate Internets for each country, but the personal computer itself is being hobbled. We are told that our computers are being stripped of their functionality because they are just too insecure and too complicated for the average "normal" or "normie" to deal with. After all, the problem could not possibly be that the Windows operating system is an insecure piece of junk, reminiscent of a 40-year-old family minivan held together with chewing gum and bailing wire. It could not be that more money can be made by locking down the personal computer and moving most, or all, of its processing into the cloud, were giant companies, rather than the owner of the computer, will decide what software can run on it. Where a monthly fee can be charged for its use.
The truth is that companies and governments are in a secret war with general-purpose computing. The reason for the war is that companies want to protect their copyrighted intellectual property, and governments want to control their citizens.
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For about two decades, beginning roughly in 1995, the average resident of the developed nations was given a gift, an unprecedented opportunity for free speech. This opportunity was made possible by the personal computer and the ability it provided to access an open, relatively unregulated Internet. Never before had the common man or woman had opportunities to express his or her views to large audiences unhindered by gatekeepers--whether they be newspaper editors, book editors, television programming directors, judges, or other government officials. The fact that this situation lasted as long as it did is astounding. But now, the natural order of things is returning. Now, the brief window of free speech is closing, and it is closing quickly.
Not only is the Internet being increasingly regulated and sectioned off into separate Internets for each country, but the personal computer itself is being hobbled. We are told that our computers are being stripped of their functionality because they are just too insecure and too complicated for the average "normal" or "normie" to deal with. After all, the problem could not possibly be that the Windows operating system is an insecure piece of junk, reminiscent of a 40-year-old family minivan held together with chewing gum and bailing wire. It could not be that more money can be made by locking down the personal computer and moving most, or all, of its processing into the cloud, were giant companies, rather than the owner of the computer, will decide what software can run on it. Where a monthly fee can be charged for its use.
The truth is that companies and governments are in a secret war with general-purpose computing. The reason for the war is that companies want to protect their copyrighted intellectual property, and governments want to control their citizens.
👀 👉🏼 https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-cage.html/
#technological #cage #internet #gatekeepers #doctorow #thinkabout
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Transcription of Cory Doctorow's keynote from 28C3. - jwise/28c3-doctorow
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Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib | Legacies of 9/11
Moazzam Begg was seized in Islamabad in February 2002 and held at #Kandahar, #Bagram and #Guantanamo for nearly three years. He was released in January 2005 without ever being charged.
In 2014 he was charged again, over travel to #Syria. Those charges collapsed when it emerged MI5 had known of and consented to his journey. In August 2025 he was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a placard, one of more than 500 detained that day under the #UKTerrorismAct.
Now outreach director at #CAGE International, he joins Middle East Eye to examine what became of the cases that justified this era's laws.
Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 on the word of a paid informant, walked free in 2019. Dr Ali al-Timimi, sentenced to life in 2005 for a speech, was fully acquitted in March 2026 on free speech grounds.
Guantanamo is still open. Fifteen men remain. The trial of the man accused of planning 9/11 is now listed for 2028.
#WOT #AbuGhraib
Moazzam Begg was seized in Islamabad in February 2002 and held at #Kandahar, #Bagram and #Guantanamo for nearly three years. He was released in January 2005 without ever being charged.
In 2014 he was charged again, over travel to #Syria. Those charges collapsed when it emerged MI5 had known of and consented to his journey. In August 2025 he was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a placard, one of more than 500 detained that day under the #UKTerrorismAct.
Now outreach director at #CAGE International, he joins Middle East Eye to examine what became of the cases that justified this era's laws.
Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 on the word of a paid informant, walked free in 2019. Dr Ali al-Timimi, sentenced to life in 2005 for a speech, was fully acquitted in March 2026 on free speech grounds.
Guantanamo is still open. Fifteen men remain. The trial of the man accused of planning 9/11 is now listed for 2028.
#WOT #AbuGhraib