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  • At the alternative elementary school Doctorow attended, students from kindergarten through 8th grade all sat in the same classroom, where they were free to pursue their interests. For Doctorow these included communism, nuclear disarmament, Dungeons and Dragons, Mad Magazine, and most of all an Apple II, on which he spent countless hours learning to code with his friend Tim Wu, a legal scholar and antitrust advocate who served in the Biden Administration as a special assistant to the president for competition and tech policy.

    I knew he was an insufferable “easy for consumption” liberal but it’s good to know that he was always like this.

    In any case, Doctorow’s ideas are another form of liberal repackaging of the ideals of the free software movement. Richard Stallman had already written about this phenomenon decades and decades ago. Doctorow is popular because his critiques never offer up any systemic solutions but rather place “enshittification” as a bad thing corporations do.

    If a guy supposedly critiquing capitalism gets featured in the NYT, then you know you’re in real radlib territory.

    Anyway read the original https://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf