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Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)

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post #7

> Computer tools are undoubtedly perverted at their very origin (the abuse of the quantitative and the reduction to the binary are proof of this) but they could be used for other ends than the ones they now serve. When we recognize that the most computerized sector is the army, and that 94% of civilian computer-time is used for management and accounting, we don’t feel like the loom-breakers of the 19th century (even…

Of course they couldn’t imagine how computers are used for constant surveillance

surveillance by means of badges and cards

Not that far off indeed

Re: Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)

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> The truth about computerization should be revealed from time to time. It should be said that a computer is just a bunch of metal that severs only to do what one wants it to do, that in our world it’s just one more tool, a particularly powerful one, that’s at the service of the dominators.

The dominators, do we care more about who are they or why are they?

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