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		BrenBarn 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s ne... Why? It seems you already know what people mean by "open and free", and it does have a connection to the ideals of openness and freedom, namely in the systemic context that I described above. So why bother about the terminology?

akoboldfrying 5 months ago [–]

What people mean by words like "open" and "free" varies. It varies a lot, and a lot turns on what they actually mean.

The only sensible way forward is to be explicit.

Why fight this obvious truth? Why does it hurt so much to say what you mean?

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