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Google made a mistake. So do judges. When judges make mistakes, you have the theoretical possibility of appealing. When Google makes a mistake, you don’t even get that theoretical chance. If we are to punish people who traffic in child sex abuse materials (and I think we should), those punishments should be meted out by a publicly accountable justice system after a fair trial that adheres to the bedrock principles of due process. It shouldn’t be meted out by unaccountable corporate giants who get to punish you in ways that far exceed any court’s reach.

— The Internet Con por Cory Doctorow

Virginia Woolf warned us that a woman’s writing will not be adequately judged so long as the standards of judgment are established and defended by men.

— The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle) por Ursula K. Le Guin

Potser et podria haver dit que, de gran, voldria ser mestra d’escola, no tant per ensenyar geografia sinó per aprendre de la història. Quin interès té explicar els rius d’Europa que esquitxen els mapes si pots incidir en l’odi reconcentrat que ha saltat fronteres, ha aniquilat persones i ha destruït poblacions senceres sense misericòrdia?

— 32 de març por Xavier Bosch

Every time we deputize tech companies with government-like enforcement duties, we make it that much harder to cut them down to size (because they need to be big to fulfill those duties) and that much harder for smaller tech to offer better, more user-centric services (because small tech companies, startups, co-ops, nonprofits and individual tinkerers can’t afford to comply with the regulations that force them to police their users’ conduct).

— The Internet Con por Cory Doctorow

Indeed, it’s when the economy is at its worst that treating people well matters most.

— Work Rules! por Laszlo Bock

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

— Good Omens por Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman