Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Spying on your users to control them is not the same thing as asking your users their ...
Spying on your users to control them is not the same thing as asking your users their permission to learn from them. Without technological self-determination, preferences can't be revealed. Without the right to seize the means of computation, the desire paths never emerge, leaving designers in the dark about what users really want.
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