Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Seizing the means of computation isn't theft, it's *bargaining*. Commercial ...

Seizing the means of computation isn't theft, it's *bargaining*. Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marketplace exchange in which you swap your privacy for access to online services. But they are running a very curious sort of market: it's a "market" where as soon as you stop to browse someone's wares, the stallholder gets to reach into your pocket and clean out your wallet.

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