does freedom of tech really matter in the end?

It's nice to read about politics or watch porn without a credit card, but we wouldn't "die" without it. And besides, there always be a way to do so. In china there are state controlled VPNs. They exist because it turns out there aren't many people interested in Tianamen, but a lot just want to read some news or watch porn. Now they got their illusion and are happy. The point is, *they* already control you. Only card to play in an unfair society is money. If you are sitting in your basement and not gaining financial power you do not have any leverage. Fancy tech freedom stuff won't help you. They have your ass, the state always have your ass with military conscription, welfare checks, psychiatry industry and such bullshit. They will track you, get a warrant, and physically snatch your OpenBSD kill switch coreboot laptop with Intel ME excised under electron microscope. And even if, what kind of... inappropriate thoughts, self published manifestos on da darkweb would do anyway? Control of the Internet is not to control /ourpeople/, but just to better govern cattle on normal personbook and harvest their data to fine tune the disposable income economy. Because /ourpeople/ will never start a revolution anyway. Hacker manifesto my ass, hackers are either employed or larping with nmap on Linkedin, a small minority trurly disassembles complex computer systems like the original word ment.

If freedom of technology did not matter we would not have the first 2 amendments to the Constitution of the United States. If wars were won by some critical mass of money and established organized force without respect to the individual then America would have won Vietnam but lost the War of independence. If decompilers and hacker manifestos were not a threat to the Antichrist then why did the Antichrist need to do the DMCA and have Aaron Swartz hanged shortly before physical manifestation?

These two people are just so abysmally retarded that the post isn't even worth meaningful engagement.

>does freedom of tech really matter in the end? Not when your only choice is vendor lock-in with literal corporate cancer (UN*X) made "free" by literal fat autists who can't understand why a """pager""" doesn't need 7000 options.

>>92988 Unrelated but, love that OP posted Melencolia I, mankind's most symbolism charged beautiful masterpiece ever created in my opinion.

>>92988 Only card to play is participate or not participate. Youll find out like i have raw economics favour innawoods, you can net nlmore red meat with a bow than a burger flipping gig, you can build a glitterboy shack in 2 months and have 95% of what you get after 20 years of saving for a down payment and pine tree bark is edible. The money inflates away to zero, the control is rolling the money up hill and begging for a loan Only your conditioning prevents you from seeing this

>does freedom of tech really matter in the end? Most of it is just a matter of personal integrity. It's like finding out that paleontology or anthropology may have the secrets to all of our problems but questioning whether it's worth it or not to do all the research job to attain the referred knowledge. Well, do you want it or not? If you think it's too boring or a handful to do it, where is the real problem, then? After some time out of imageboards eventually I came back here, since lain is a nice environment. The public of imageboards, specially in tech boards, changed radically in two years, and I see many users throwing that defeatist rhetoric around. Not that there was not black pill and loser mentality before but I guess it's way more now. If it's too much grind for you to consider if it's worth it or not, remember, going towards freedom is necessarily going against the grain of everything our society holds important. Of course it will be ridiculously difficult and inconvenient, going for freedom not only in tech, but specially in tech, which is what the whole establishment relies on to control the masses. Masses that we are part of, whether we like it or not. There is no such group of outsiders in the web anymore. So I don't think we strive for it to appeal to the masses, although I would certainly love if people weren't so stupid and so on, and yes, the game is rigged for decades now and this shouldn't be a novelty to anyone. Tech gave the ruling classes too much ease on their management, they control us too comfortably. Now it's up to whomever is reading this to decide by themselves, why even research about /sec/, privacy and freedom general when you don't have the disposition to do what is necessary? This is literally to confront the technicalities of the "Matrix", it is sacrificial work and study and a choice of a harder life in some aspects of it, of course it is. I'm sorry but the people who are questioning this NOW need to BTFO a bit and do their own homework and evaluate if it's "worth it" by themselves, because this is all edging on well-poisoning. Hacking was never really about getting a damn job and cybersec was never really about utilitarianism. I know it's not cool to point that out, but I was honestly horrified with the vibe on /g/ recently and I'm just here to re-find my way out of the standard web, if I'm lucky. The http protocol is clearly overtaken.