Libre Culture

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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Amazon recently opened a distribution center in my old home town which made them one of the largest employers in the area overnight. The local leaders rolled over and gave Amazon every concession to get those jobs. I've avoided Amazon as much as possible for a long time, but now it is personal because they've brought their abusive warehouse jobs to community where I grew up.

Hopefully, if the federal anti-trust suits against Facebook, Google, Et al. go well Amazon will be next on the chopping block.

Instead of a government takeover of the company, I'd prefer to see it broken apart and the retail side of things reorganized from the bottom up as a coop. I think that would be the best possible outcome. There have been some pretty substantial unionization efforts within Amazon, I think that's an important first step. The PRO Act greatly expands worker rights, and it recently passed the US House again. If the PRO Act passes the Senate it will give workers significantly better chances in their efforts to form strong unions. Then maybe an Amazon union can finally get off the ground.