Oddbean new post about login | logout I haven’t really noticed a change in political affiliation in open source software but I’m not sure how one would determine that. I do remember relatively recent left-motivated changes to terms in code, such as replacing “master/slave”. In general, I believe the left and right have somewhat swapped in their valuing of free speech, which open source software is.
It looks like the mainstream has shifted to the left. The media and the uniparty government appear to be quietly headed towards communism. It makes sense that the counter culture might find itself more comfortable on the right in the modern world. The interesting thing that has occurred over the last 40 years is the importance that they digital world has taken on, in the lives of each of us. With the current structure, ownership in the digital space is limited only to bitcoin and Nostr identities. Most of our data is centrally held and not really controlled by us. There is the potential to change this with further developments to Nostr. Enabling encrypted content, that is unlockable with lightning payments is the first stage in this process.
Yup. It’s the party in power that tends to be against free speech. Always been that way.
Yep, everyone wants free speech when they are criticising the rulers. The rulers don't want free speech, because they don't want to be criticised. The thing that is strange right now is that the rules are trying to use the interests of minority groups in the form of virtue signalling to shut down any form of debate.
Well, the people belonging to the tribes which currently make up "acceptable discourse" (some of which are still heavily targeted by others, but still promoted by the regime. See Andrew Tate, if the "other side" hadnt constantly gone on and on about him, nobody would know who that guy is, so hes still at the fringes of acceptable discourse but within it and promoted to fortify the outer border of acceptable discourse. Its still all democrats, ultimately, i.e. people who beleive in voting. I dont. I believe voting is essentially communism. Nationalism, too, is a very new revolutionary socialist ideology under whcih even the state itself, the means of producing law, defense and justice are no longer privately owned which i of course do not deem acceptable. And if you are gonna have democracy, at least dont let women who will never be forced to fight the wars they are voting for to vote. Weve seen in 1933 germany what womens suffrage leads to.