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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      My take on this is just that "real property" is -- well, it's *real property* That's what actually matters Acting like the primary thing oppressing you is IP is part of the damn game It's how they trick you into thinking cyberspace matters more than meatspace, which is crap

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      You'd have to look pretty far to find a handful of people you can say are actually more oppressed by paying "rents" for the books they read or the software they use than actual literal rent to the actual literal landlord for the space their body physically occupies

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      (But Arthur, homeowners are relatively common in the US -- Yeah that's another part of this fucking game If you're a middle-class homeowner and you're not rich then your mortgage is an "imputed rent" you're paying to the previous homeowner and the bank)

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      Anyway, without getting into the weeds on this -- Most of the forms of oppression in our society today STILL have way more to do with real property than intellectual property

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      The fact that FOSS advocates can get right-leaning libertarians onside by saying "You can still start a very profitable business operating on FOSS" *is evidence that FOSS isn't that big a fucking deal* If FOSS were the revolution, they couldn't say that

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      Facebook isn't powerful because of Facebook's fucking CODE They don't have some magic secret software sauce that made them successful -- the idea that Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day in his dorm and banged out a few hundred lines of PHP that contained The Secret is absurd

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4

      Facebook is powerful because of Facebook's SERVERS This basic fact people seem to forget (because it's intentionally obscured) that running a website *costs real, physical resources out here in the meat world* A datacenter takes up space and costs massive amounts of electricity

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    8. A few million pixels‏ @itsybitsydots Mar 4
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MT6572A

      Facebook isn't powerful because of its servers - it's powerful because of the network effect, among other things. Google has spent a lot of effort many times to take a slice of the social media pie and has failed each time - and it's not because they don't have servers.

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @itsybitsydots @MT6572A

      Facebook is more than just a brand name -- it's a walled garden, and control over physical access to computing resources is what allows those walls to exist

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @arthur_affect @itsybitsydots @MT6572A

      I mean, yes, you could spitball a way that in some world with communal computing resources no one is allowed to monopolize in any way "Facebook" still exists purely as a brand name, a Seal of Approval on websites up to Facebook's standard of quality

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @arthur_affect @itsybitsydots @MT6572A

      But it wouldn't be the world we have today The existence of Facebook in its current form absolutely demands that there be no way that I can make a http://facebook.com  page against their will and just put it in their database next to the "official ones"

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