"With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman

Essential reading

1. The right to read
2. Free software, free society. PDF
3. The JavaScript Trap
4. Why open source misses the point of free software
5. Feudal Security
6. You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
7. Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose computing
8. You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing
9. ‘No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State’
10. Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues

People with similar ideas:

• Aaron Swartz
• Edward Snowden
• Bruce Schneier
• Cory Doctorow
• Evgeny Morozov
• Maciej Cegłowski

Vaguely related:

/r/lostgeneration • /r/freeculture • /r/linux • /r/NSALeaks • /r/programming • r/LateStageColonialism • r/Firefox

Rules

1. Memes and shitposts allowed only on Mondays
2. Try to flair your posts
3. WWRMSD?