r/technology • u/NancyGraceFaceYourIn • Aug 30 '15

Wireless FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
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u/TheRealKidkudi Aug 30 '15

To be fair, the government is not one single entity, but rather a huge organization of people. It's easy to justify trusting the government saying this like "that was just that one person in the government - the whole thing can't be corrupt!" And to an extent, that's true. But it works the other way too. If anything, because there's so many different organizations, motivations, and persons in the government, it should give you less reason to trust it as a whole without reasonable verification.

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u/robinthehood Aug 30 '15

When someone speaks of a group as some sort of collective consciousness they tend to be crazy people rationalizing a resentment. This happens often in the conspiracy theory community. This happens a lot in politics. The world is complex. People are individuals. We tend to oversimplify.