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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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RIP Swartz, death to the US regime. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What was the goal of the prosecution?

From what I understand, Aaron planted a laptop in an MIT networking closet and had it slurping down journal content. That's just not okay. Presumably they didn't want to let him off without some consequences.

So which is it?

Given the number of people going through the justice system, some are going to be suicidal. Now could you answer the questions I posed: "how is that the fault of the justice system?" and "Would you have ever consider possible suicide as a top factor?"

Seems to me that political activists like Swartz are precisely the demographic that the system is biased against.

It's mostly biased against people who live in poverty. They are often unable to mount an effective legal defense. Technically the state is supposed to supply a public defense lawyer if the accused cannot afford one, but public defenders are notoriously overworked. This has led to a situation where public defenders often push the accused to take plea deals regardless of guilt simply because they lack the time to put together an effective defense. Aaron Swartz would have been able to raise an effective legal defense.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

That’s just not okay. Presumably they didn’t want to let him off without some consequences.

Seems like the university, who would presumably be the victim here, seemed ok with it. What message in particular do you think the regime was trying to send by going after such activity?

Given the number of people going through the justice system, some are going to be suicidal.

And they just happen to be political activists.

It’s mostly biased against people who live in poverty.

People in poverty are exploited as slave labor. US drug laws in particular are designed specifically to round up poor minorities so that they can be enslaved. This is a pretty well documented fact by the way. However, that's far from the only demographic that the regime goes after. People like Swartz are prosecuted because of their ideas, and it's absurd to claim they can mount an effective legal defence against the power of the regime.