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uncomfortable truth for anarchist computer folks 

You know that thing about how any system of hierarchy and power is eventually coopted, regardless of how good the intentions are, by authoritarians? And how it will turn into a system of oppression? And how that's fundamentally unavoidable on a long-enough timescale even with 'checks and balances'?

Yeah. You know how computer technology is structured, with only a few parties capable of manufacturing it, and most of society being centralized into a handful of different 'shapes' of computer system?

That's a system of power.

While this is not a call to 'abandon technology' or similar primitivist rhetoric, this is absolutely a thing you need to be thinking about long and hard as a tech anarchist.

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