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Apocalyptic Net Loses of Mass Surveillance (blenderdumbass.org)

submitted 1 week ago by blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Mathematical prof that surveillance harms x 1K more than it could potentially help.

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[–] blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

to help open source projects like gnu or copy-left licenses

Copyleft was not designed to protect the developer from corporations. It was designed to protect users from developers.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

it's one of the several other examples that i pulled out the thin air and probably not the most appropriate in helping me make my point.