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Democratizing technology isn't fundamentally about Freedom and Openness and Fairness.

It's about making technology useable by everyday people.

You can do that by making everyone an engineer, or by placing arbitrary limits that increase the likelihood of people using the thing, or any number of ways. Limiting access to technology can absolutely democratize it.



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