Back in 2010 I submitted a conference paper called 'Free to Know or Free to Own', in which I referenced Kirkpatrick Sale's re-examination of the Luddites, and suggested that interventions like the software freedom movement could be seen as digital era Luddism. 10 years later, it seems Sale is not the only writer celebrating the Luddite legacy and I'm not the only one suggesting it has contemporary relevance:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right
@strypey I wonder if Matthew James Seidel, who seems to oppose central & singular corporate access to data and power over it, as well as #surveillanceCapitism, knows that his article is in #Cloudflare's walled garden. Strypey: I suggest following @altlink.
