" More important, I’ve moved to these alternative platforms because I’ve changed my mind about the politics of technology. I now believe it’s essential to embed my instincts and values, to a greater and greater extent, in the technology I use.
Those values start with a basic notion: We are losing control over the tools that once promised equal opportunity in speech and innovation—and this has to stop."
I would add that it with renouncing convenience to drop out from these services means quite a lot: opening up to new knowledge on how to use others, and time to learn that.
My next stop - perhaps for when I buy a new computer, will be to buy it with Linux installed, and then find someone around my immediate environment and in the absence of folks like Edgeryders, to show me how to work with it.
