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id816271710
this hippie technology thing could give Reagan’s policy of gutting welfare and making his Rich buddies richer a progressive code of paint
id816271729
cyber libertarianism could adopt the Aesthetics of rebellious progressivism thanks to the hippies it could also without ideological contradiction be completely compatible with the neoliberal definition of freedom the idea that coercion is something only the state can do
id816271788
the effect of this harmony between a vague definition of freedom but radical Aesthetics is that it takes perfectly reasonable progressives who would otherwise be completely opposed to neoliberal Market reforms and the dismantling of useful public government services and tricks them into embracing neoliberal politics by dressing it up in the language of digital freedom
id816271708
neoliberalism and its cyber libertarian variant has never been about getting rid of government just twisting it to suit corporate purposes it’s never been about promoting freedom and Free Speech just equating free speech with corporate power to protect capitalist from democratic scrutiny it’s never been about getting rid of government services in the public interest just ridding capitalist of the respons responsibility to pay the taxes that make them possible
id816272681
cyber Libertarians are explicitly anti-democratic they want a space where they make the rules and can wield their privilege however they want and what they want is to keep their power and the best way to do that is to keep insisting that they are the true Defenders of Freedom and distract from all the awful problems we know come from Tech billionaires
id816273583
if your only definition of freedom is I can do what I want and not Society should be a place where we look out for each other so we can all Thrive you get little Tech Kings running the show for them and their powerful racist friends convincing you that because they can do whatever they want it means that you can too