There are lots of parallels between Jaron Lanier and Richard Stallman. Cory Doctorow is another one I would put in that list, as well as SF writer Charles Stross.
Cory Doctorow has been making and refining these points for a while now. If you have read his essays or seen him speak you may have heard some of those paragraphs already.
That's certainly an interesting view. Can you expand on that? What were they doing before that they're not doing now, or doing more of under Doctorow's influence?
I’ve really enjoyed Doctorow’s books. My WiFi ssid is parasiteNet.
However, he seems a bit too bullshitty nowadays. While I agree with him on OSS/CreativeCommons/etc he seems to be arguing with no one as copyright maximalists have different points.
Also his recent Walkaway novel has a long couple of pages about meritocracy is a myth and a tool of the man and it’s all about random access, etc.
Definitely the same story I was thinking about. Maybe Doctorow linked it somewhere? It certainly sits very squarely at the center of his interests in law, copyright, privacy, fatherhood and spec fic. Thanks!
https://craphound.com/shop/
Similarly, I liked Jaron Lanier’s “Who Owns the Future?”, which deals with similar topics:
https://www.jaronlanier.com/futurewebresources.html
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