Real anarchists aren’t thinking about politics all that much.

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We’re thinking about all the other things that being an anarchist frees us up to think about instead. Being an Anarchist creates a lot of free time. For the same reason, we’re usually not engaged in campaigns of political speech in various venues. We might ejaculate some critical material at home (the AsherNet is my home), the way some people might hurl things or epithets at a television (“don’t go down in the basement, you moron!”), but we’re usually not out debating people in various political forums. Anarchy is more of a comprehensive way of looking at things – like ‘organic’ or ‘green’ or ‘local’ – not much is immune, it’s all somewhat interesting, but we’re freed up to focus on our own particular interests or just flit around and mess with various things without having to offer up an explanatory pattern.

Anarcast #8: Attack on Google & Internet Freedom

The Playful Anarchist podcast, with Asher Black (Anarcast #8, AsherCast #8).

Topic: the Italian courts jailing Google executives for not pulling an offensive video from Youtube more quickly. Asher argues that the method by which governments are progressively regulating the internet is by exposing free speech providers to massive litigation or criminal charges, so that they have to restrict speech on the governments’ behalf (the Napster protocol). Asher makes the case that this effectively insulates governments and their incestuous pacts with corporations from criticism – by appeal to a right to privacy. Asher makes the point that the supposed “right to privacy” that upheld Roe vs. Wade in the US offers a similar justification of internet restrictions in the United States, and that the “liberals” who made that “pact with the devil” will be responsible, ironically, for the restrictions of free speech (including their own) that are the outcome.

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Music: by Stellamara (Immrama) on the Magnatune label. Opinions: solely those of Asher Black.