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Comment by dijit

I always found it interesting how hacker culture is largely propped up on the protections society has carved out for librarians following world war 2 (where certain sections of society had been identified based on what books they had looked at).

The hacker culture of “information wants to be free” is largely predicated on the librarian mantras of the same sentiment and only given protection by western europe after clear and serious abuse.

Librarians are the very forefront of information access and the privacy of looking up certain information, we owe them a lot.

parent dijit 1 year ago

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