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1 year agoRight wing? Money is a pretty nonpartisan matter.
Most of the right-wingers have already fled off to Gab, MeWe, or Mastodon.
Your reasoning touches on a deep philosophical concept: what is “ownership”?
I’d say owning something is easy enough when you can’t duplicate it (I can’t just copy your car or house to save money). Duplication, however, means the ownership is technically the abstraction of “intellectual property”, which worked fine when duplicating cost money and people paid money for it.
However, the very essence of using a computer on a network is simply using copies. You’re not reading this as I write it, but a copy your computer downloaded.