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The War on General Computation (timothysamson.github.io)
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This article is a prettification of this Wikisource Transcription and is a transcription of Cory Doctorow’s 2011 speech. I try to be 100% true to its source.

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

We have a chance, a real chance, and if we support open and free systems, and the organizations that fight for them – EFF, Bits of Freedom, EDRI, ORG, CC, Netzpolitik, La Quadrature du Net, and all the others, who are thankfully, too numerous to name here – we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we’ll need for the war. Cory Doctorow

The teaser text could do with simpler and more concise sentences. So many commas and thought block within one sentence.