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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
This is a strange thing to get from the letter when he is saying the opposite. He isn't talking about his influence, but the influence of the masses.
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I was referring to things like:
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I’m not talking about Google or the technology companies, mind you – I’m talking about the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century.
I’m one of those engineers – you rely on my code every time you use a browser or a smartphone or a game console.
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To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches, it’s also a sort of reactive social organism composed of the people who keep those wires humming and those switches clicking. John Gilmore is one of them. I’m another.
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We built the Internet as a tool to make every individual human being on the planet more empowered.
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Could be just me though... I'm perfectly willing to accept that possibility.