Brilliant article, right on the nail, in timing, as well as in general. Am I right in guessing that the incident of devices being simultaneously detonated in the hands of many people in Lebanon might be playing on your mind? It is on mine. Stuxnet comes to mind.
It looks like something really bad in the hands of probably it's creators, who maybe created it with not the best of will. They maybe intended it to be used exactly how they are using it, and it doesn't look good to most of us.
Maybe, if we understand that there is a massive change going on, which will turn the old world upside down in many ways, for many folk, we might see that in the future, we will start to see that we haven't really met the real enemy yet, it's a force we won't encounter until we stop fighting and destroying our own.
In some ways we might even see what makes us fight amongst our own humanity is a remnant from a long time ago, when the real enemy, an inhuman force with genuinely world ending capability was here, physically enslaving us. It suits it, in its absence, for us to be fighting amongst ourselves, never organised enough, never educated enough, to understand how to break out of the learned behaviour of slavery it put on us.
Anyhow, this being speculation that might be true or not, hopefully we might see that the things designed to do harm to our own, by those still under most influence of the original old enslaver, could in the future be aimed at it, if that inhuman force ever returned, or if we were to encounter any other inhuman hostile force, everything we created to harm ourselves could be repurposed, to defend ourself against things we might really need protection against.
To me it's becoming clear there really are forces of good and evil, even scientifically identifiable, but a large part of science, at least the mainstream version of it, has come unwittingly under the control of the negative force, which has profit at its root, profit being an unsustainable energy lie, a kind of deception, and it's existential if we can't quit it.
Anyhow, the interest of the negative learned behaviour, is to keep us stupid, never coming to understand it.
Part of our growing capability, our power as a fledgling intelligent species, is technology. We would be nothing without it, just more domesticated creatures doomed to planet destroying, unsustainable slavery by hostile forces that live by taking advantage of that.
This is why those advocating for explicit degrowth, de-technologising etc are unwittingly working for the forces of enslavement.
All we really need to do, to end enslavement, which for sure still exists, (We are all energy slaves), is change the source of input energy of humanity, from being extracted from Earth, to being received from sun.
What isn't understood, is that there is massive economic product never monetised since solar began to be significantly received, around 2005, worth trillions. This is wealth just waiting to be activated by monetisation, and we know it's there because it was tested during covid. The test showed that the value of money issued went up, not down as conventional economists predicted, but fits with the physical analysis that energy now plays a much bigger role in the value of money than it might have done a long time ago when money was created. Money is now abstracted energy. More energy travels by money now than by any other means.
So money has become a kind of lifeblood of energy. Every one of us has to have it, we have moved to it as the most efficient method of getting the energy we each need to metabolise, as well as what we need for business.
Anyhow, sorry seemingly rambling response but I am sure you see it's all systemically relevant, part of the Grand system, we are only scratching the surface, it's important to be aware of all this to be qualified to try to make decisions on things like freedom of speech. Instinctively any restrictions are bad, Metcalfe's law says why formally, and the good gut instinct says why instinctively, freedom is good, always, but its easy to fall into the small mindedness of the enslaved, worrying about local details when the bigger picture matters more.
The negative force wins, if we react to the misuse of Stuxnet, and things like it, and by extension also to technology, the slavers win if we allow ourselves to be put back into the dark ages of pre-technology.
But the slavers can never win.
We, both the human enslaved and human slavers, all lose the most prized asset of all, the planet, and actually life, if we can't break out of the energy enslavement we put on ourselves as a species.
We impose our own slavery and our own planetary destruction, until we can stop it, and maybe all it needs is education / understanding to move on from energy slavery to real survivability, and actually the adult phase of our existence.
Hence why I'd say keep it all free, all code, all speech, all open source, none of it should be proprietary, and we never know what parts will be needed and when, for always a good cause.
All companies will be bankrupt soon, even the giant Microsoft, all code will be coming into the public domain soon, unless they are stupid enough to destroy code rather than see it in public hands.