That's how we make good tech: not by insisting all its inputs be free from sin, but by purging that wickedness by *liberating* the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
Purity culture is such an obvious trap, an artifact of the neoliberal ideology that insists that the solution to all our problems is to shop very carefully, thus reducing all politics to personal consumption choices:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems
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Cory Doctorow
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