It’s a tool, it can have good and bad uses. But what’s interesting is the “dreams” of those who invested in the first place, their objectives: cheap labor, capitalist expansion. And the means to achieve it: ignore copyright like hypocrites.
Sure, the tool is here. “Confetti left the cannon”. Now, what is everyone doing with it? Good and bad uses, of course. But that’s beyond the point of the critique.
This falacy is quite common, “science is like a hammer”. Only those who never studied the least of social sciences or human history believe such thing (including most exact and natural scientists… •sigh•)
It’s a tool, it can have good and bad uses. But what’s interesting is the “dreams” of those who invested in the first place, their objectives: cheap labor, capitalist expansion. And the means to achieve it: ignore copyright like hypocrites.
Sure, the tool is here. “Confetti left the cannon”. Now, what is everyone doing with it? Good and bad uses, of course. But that’s beyond the point of the critique.
This falacy is quite common, “science is like a hammer”. Only those who never studied the least of social sciences or human history believe such thing (including most exact and natural scientists… •sigh•)
See also: Do artifacts have politics?