More true is to say that early internet champions were alive to the *importance* of the internet, and therefore both excited about the possibilities of the internet to deliver a world of connection, idiosyncrasy, love and solidarity; and about the danger of the internet as a dystopian system of surveillance and manipulation:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/13/digital-rights/#are-human-rights
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Cory Doctorow
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