tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6708136150243237810..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: "Now Is the Perfect Timing to Push the Borders of Freedom Further": Egyptian Students Publish "El Gornal" Newspaper Without Government PermissionDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-46176768409122420182011-02-19T17:27:46.909-08:002011-02-19T17:27:46.909-08:00We have a duty to make technology liberating.
Wel...<i>We have a duty to make technology liberating.</i><br /><br />Well put, and music to my ears compared to the self-promotional antics of "techno-progressive" futurology too often too eager to celebrate "liberatory technology," but without attending to just who is using just which tools to just which effects in technodevelopmental social struggles as they play out in the only future that matters: the open-futurity in present plurality opening onto what comes after from what we're after, peer-to-peer.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-65820397523100776172011-02-19T15:39:17.040-08:002011-02-19T15:39:17.040-08:00It's amazing that there are places in the worl...It's amazing that there are places in the world where you can't publish a newspaper or pamphlet without government permission -- where information is the enemy of the state.<br /><br /><em>indeed the prevailing usages of all of [the new media tools] are, in my view, reactionary</em><br /><br />It's true, once again, that technology is what you make of it, and can be used for oppression as well as liberation. We have a duty to make technology liberating. That's why I run Tor relays, of course. It's a small contribution to a widespread problem, but an effective one nonetheless. In fact, I logged into my VPS earlier today and noticed that about a dozen of the ~200 concurrent connections were from Iran. <br />That was just at that moment. Each week I may be helping hundreds of Iranians connect to the uncensored internet, read about the protests in other Arab countries, etc. That kind of knowledge is powerful, and it vindicates what I do.adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01020701980607126113noreply@blogger.com