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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Systems designed to reshape people

mardi 27 novembre 2018 à 01:00

CAPTCHAs and "click to agree" are examples of how computer systems are designed to reshape people to subserviently participate in the designs of the systems' owners, and avoid careful thinking.

Proprietary programs and online disservices are the means for doing this, but the solution to do this to people is found in executives and owners of those systems.

The free software movement has considerable overlap, therefore, with the refusal to let businesses reshape you.