From e02e96bb3853759051a5ae2251e2384606e8af57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:25:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Switch to "We must not pretend we can prevent what we can not" as phrase --- README.org | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index b64a134..cc48484 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ it may be time for some re-evaluation. # - social networks: breadth vs depth? # - wholesale borrowing of surveillance capitalist assumptions -** Don't pretend we can prevent what we can't +** We must not pretend we can prevent what we can not #+BEGIN_QUOTE "By leading users and programmers to make decisions under a false @@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ This seems almost right, except that there may be things that in-bound of a system, we cannot technically prevent, yet we prohibit from occurring anyhow, and which we may enforce at another abstraction layer, including social layers. -So here is a slightly modified version of that phrase: "Don't pretend -we can prevent what we can't." +So here is a slightly modified version of that phrase: "We must not +pretend we can prevent what we can not." This is important. There may be things which we strongly wish to prevent on a protocol