Techno-Anarchism

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Techno-Anarchism is an anarchist ideology deeply rooted in the principles of technological progression and liberty. Emerging from the philosophies of the GNU Project and the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movements, it envisions a world where digital spaces are entirely free from centralized authority , fostering a decentralized and egalitarian online environment. Advocates of Techno-Anarchism champion the use of cryptographic tools and privacy-enhancing technologies as vital mechanisms for ensuring individuals maintain security, anonymity, and autonomy over their digital existence. By promoting the development and widespread adoption of these technologies, the ideology seeks to empower individuals to fully control their slice of cyberspace, resisting government surveillance , state censorship , and corporate domination . Ultimately, Techno-Anarchism represents a fusion of libertarian ideals and cutting-edge technological advancements, striving for a future where freedom and innovation thrive in harmony across the digital landscape.

Foundations and Beliefs

Techno-Anarchism believes that privacy is a fundamental human right.

Techno-Anarchism seeks to create a system of peer to peer networks which enable the users of such systems to fully exercise their autonomy within Cyberspace. To ensure that these peer to peer networks work on a transparent basis it supports GNU as the ideal license.

The GNU License

The GNU General Public License (GPL) works on the basis of the belief that software licenses should protect your rights to use, modify and share software, not prevent you from doing these.

GNU General Public Licenses have gone through multiple different revisions and modified versions exist with less freedoms or more freedoms depending on the usecase at hand. Examples of such modified licenses include:

  • Lesser GPL/LGPL: a license that allows developers to incorporate non-free software into an otherwise free software, this is used by the multimedia library FFMPEG to enable the control of proprietary codecs the team does not have the right to.
  • Affero GPL/AGPL: a license that builds upon GPL, adding a so called “virality clause” that states that any software that relies on AGPL software must also be published under AGPL and as such have their source code made readily available, this is primarily intended to prevent malicious actors from using obscured and modified free software to serve users malicious software.

The standard version of GPLv3 contains 17 sections that explicitly lay out in legal terms a user’s right to get access to the source code, modify it and use it for whatever intent they desire, republish modified versions, sharing non-source forms and frees the original author of any legal liability for whatever the user chooses to do with the software, among others.

Variants

Crypto-Anarchism

Crypto-Anarchism, also known as Cyberanarchism, wants to create an anarchist system through computer technology. They employ cryptographic software for confidentiality and security while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect privacy, political freedom, and economic freedom. By using cryptographic software, the association between the identity of a certain user or organization and the pseudonym they use is made difficult to find, unless the user reveals the association. Their motives are to defend against surveillance of computer network communication and censorship. They also want to build and participate in counter-economics, especially involving cryptocurrency, smart contract, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and decentralized finance (DeFi) technology in geral.

Personality and Behavior

Techno-Anarchism is a Linux elitist, uses Artix or Qubes, always has a handy Tails usb, he usually uses 13-year-old CPUs and other old hardware. Only uses RYF-approved hardware besides his Google Pixel phones running Graphene, refuses to use proprietary software, runs a canoebooted Thinkpad X220, all his connections are run through Tor and other networks, with the Linux-libre kernel on it. Will bring up FOSS someway or another.

How to Draw

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Relationships

Have access to private server

  • Agorism - Agree already that I'm just a modern version of you.
  • Piratism - I fully support rejection of intellectual property. But on the other hand it would be better if people used free software instead of proprietary.
  • Anti-Authoritarianism - You do riots, I do tools. We will work great together.
  • Soulism - Way too radical, but still based.
  • Anarcho-Capitalism - Nobody should have any say in what I do with my own crypto!
  • Privacy Theory - My dad and four anonymous friends of mine.

Temporal link

  • Anarcho-Nihilism - Why do you say that we will not destroy the state by internet action?
  • E-Democracy - Right idea, but kinda implies some get more power than others, so I'm not quite sure about you.
  • Avaritionism - I mean, you are giving me money for making anarchy... But I checked your SSD and I don't like, what I find.
  • Alt-Right - Nanochan was great, I miss it.
  • Neoreactionaryism - Stupid corporatocrat who said 2024 wasn't the year of the Linux desktop, wait you think the future of computing is private?

Jannies and corpos

  • Police Statism - Breaks hard drive I'm sorry, what?
  • Corporatocracy - No, I didn't steal anything, it's called reverse engineering wink
  • Dengism - Biggest threat to our world. It's good they don't like to share how their great firewall works.
  • Juche - It's even worse. They basically created a country-sized local network.
  • Anarcho-Primitivism - NO, WE NEED TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE ANARCHISM, YOU STUPID MONKEY!!
  • Reactionary Modernism - I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Further Information

Wikipedia

Websites

Clearnet

Darknet

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