The current distance between those who organise their activism to develop “technical infrastructures” and those who bring their struggles to these infrastructures is remarkable. The paradoxical consequences can be baffling: radical activists organize and sustain themselves using “free” technical services provided by Fortune 500 companies. At the same time, “alternative tech practices”, like the Free Software Community, are sustained by a select visionary and male few, proposing crypto with 9-lives as the minimum infrastructure for any political undertaking.
via vous-etes-ici.net by Seda Gürses.