While I'm harping on this, I should say that the textbook definition of "commodity fetishism" absolutely and totally applies to the aphorism "information wants to be free" It's the exact equivalent of saying shit like "wages want to be low"
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Information wants to be free and it also wants to be worthless Those are the same market force People demanding *good* information and constructing a whole economy around gatekeeping, curation, etc is "information wanting to be expensive" That hasn't changed
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Good information is as costly as it ever was, the only shift is in who gets paid, and the people now getting paid the most are the assholes who have the least to do with it
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To be fair, though, our expensive information sources haven’t proven especially reliable when it comes to the truth. (I suppose you could argue this is a byproduct of the saturation of unreliable free information, but I’m not sure.)
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I think your point here is very wise as a counterpoint, even if this is a natural progression of capitalism. https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1245151237571358720?s=21 …https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1245151237571358720 …
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