https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dale-carrico-responds-to-cory-doctorow-technology-is-not-a-force-for-either-liberation-or-oppression/2012/05/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 10 May 2012 02:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dale-carrico-responds-to-cory-doctorow-technology-is-not-a-force-for-either-liberation-or-oppression/2012/05/09/comment-page-1#comment-491612 Thu, 10 May 2012 02:26:04 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=23773#comment-491612 This probably goes without saying, but I’m actually a fan of Cory Doctorow’s writing and am allied to his p2p a2k politics like most people reading this likely are. I suspect he would sympathize with most of what I say in this passage, and he would probably put these points more concisely to boot. I was responding to some of his phrasing here and in hindsight I think I was frankly nit-picking. I still strongly agree with everything of substance you are quoting here and am happy to see you guys re-circulating it. Thanks for that! I do think facile futurology is all too susceptible to the problems I talk about here, but I am far from thinking Doctorow is on the wrong side on this when all is said and done.

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dale-carrico-responds-to-cory-doctorow-technology-is-not-a-force-for-either-liberation-or-oppression/2012/05/09/comment-page-1#comment-491610 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:08:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=23773#comment-491610 Every IT has a particular topology, every topology allows different things to different subjects. So, technology is not neutral because under every informational architecture lays a different structure of power. And power is what matters: centralized networks (as facebook) give control power to the central node, decentralized networks configure oligarchies and distributed networks (as bittorrent or self hosted blogs) destroy power unequality.

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