everyone is going off about how zoom + other platforms aren& #39;t privacy respecting software but nobody is getting at the fact that free and open software is the only software that respects your agency and isn& #39;t made to turn you into a commodity. (thread)

by definition it is built cooperatively to serve user needs and for a specific use value rather than its monetary value. if we are ever to build a view of socialist production in the quaternary economy, FOSS needs to be part of it (2/?)

there are definitely people out there who are trying to come up with a political economy of peer production and the pol. implications of copyleft but FOSS projects face an existential threat from tech firms and by the complex world of licensing (3/?)

another internet--federated, free, user-controlled and produced--is within reach. there& #39;s no good reason to let the capitalistic mode of production seep into this part of society more than it already has. (4/?)

consider being conscious about the tech you use and what tech you& #39;re willing to find acceptable. FOSS can/should be part of praxis in a world becoming ever more deeply dependent on tech (5)