To support fundamental freedoms online, this is worthwhile. But if you stop at only this level, it’s not very effective. People can have free communication tools and association tools and so on. But if they do not organize using those tools, if they do not shape the public beliefs with these discussions, then it’s just a bunch of solo games that people play in virtual reality, maybe having a lot of fun, but a lot of freedom, but no democracy. I think for democracy affirming tools, it’s not just rights or freedom preserving tools. Tools like GitHub is also important.

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