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Remove most common objection.
commit7ca6627f0f72cf62a02b48dd27a6baa63b4cd9ea authorC. Guy Yarvin <cgyarvin@gmail.com> dateTue 28 Jun 2016, 11:08 (10 years ago) parent9f377ed
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@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Here's our list right now:
3333- [Urbit programmers are stuck with Hoon.](#stuck)
3434- [Ordinary users will never be able to manage an Urbit server.](#user)
3535- [Urbit has no killer app.](#killer)
36−- [Urbit is a reactionary digital dictatorship.](#dictator)
3736- [Urbit is sniffed at by Houyhnhyms.](#horse)
3837
3938*"We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard."*
@@ -658,31 +657,6 @@ Stateful, self-updating, generic API aggregators with FUSE
658657integration, also integrated with a reactive web server, are
659658rarer.
660659
661−<h2 id="dictator">Urbit is a reactionary digital
662−dictatorship.</h2>
663−
664−**TLDR**: Facebook is a digital dictatorship.
665−Urbit is a decentralized network with a republican constitution.
666−
667−It's especially important to combat the impression that Tlon is a
668−reactionary conspiracy. Tlon is a Delaware corporation. It
669−exists to make its investors as rich as possible. We are not
670−aware of our investors' ideologies. We are pretty confident that
671−they don't take precedence, ever, over turning a profit.
672−
673−As in any corporation, Tlon's employees work for its investors.
674−Those employees would have trouble conspiring in any political
675−sense, though. In 2016 election terms, two of us are for
676−Sanders, one for Clinton, and two for Trump.
677−
678−Now, in the long run, it's quite wrong for Urbit to be run by any
679−profit-oriented corporation, Delaware or otherwise. This is why
680−we've partitioned off 50 galaxies for a future Urbit Foundation.
681−Furthermore, the power of *any* central body in Urbit is designed
682−to wane over time. But we can't get ahead of ourselves in this.
683−Urbit, to create an effective and competent digital republic,
684−needs to move slowly and carefully in establishing it.
685−
686660<h2 id="horse">Urbit is sniffed at by Houyhnhyms.</h2>
687661
688662It's difficult to categorize [this awesome