Techno-Anarchism is an 
anarchist ideology deeply rooted in the principles of 
technological progression and liberty. Emerging from the philosophies of the GNU Project and the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movements, it envisions a world where digital spaces are entirely free from 
centralized authority 
, fostering a 
decentralized and 
egalitarian online environment. Advocates of Techno-Anarchism champion the use of cryptographic tools and privacy-enhancing technologies as vital mechanisms for ensuring individuals maintain security, anonymity, and autonomy over their digital existence. By promoting the development and widespread adoption of these technologies, the ideology seeks to empower 
individuals to fully control their slice of cyberspace, resisting 
government surveillance 
, 
state censorship 
, and 
corporate domination 
. Ultimately, Techno-Anarchism represents a fusion of 
libertarian ideals and 
cutting-edge technological advancements, striving for a future where 
freedom and 
innovation thrive in harmony across the digital landscape.
Foundations and Beliefs
Techno-Anarchism believes that privacy is a fundamental human right.
Techno-Anarchism seeks to create a system of peer to peer networks which enable the users of such systems to fully exercise their autonomy within Cyberspace. To ensure that these peer to peer networks work on a transparent basis it supports GNU as the ideal license.
The GNU License
The GNU General Public License (GPL) works on the basis of the belief that software licenses should protect your rights to use, modify and share software, not prevent you from doing these.
GNU General Public Licenses have gone through multiple different revisions and modified versions exist with less freedoms or more freedoms depending on the usecase at hand. Examples of such modified licenses include:
- Lesser GPL/LGPL: a license that allows developers to incorporate non-free software into an otherwise free software, this is used by the multimedia library FFMPEG to enable the control of proprietary codecs the team does not have the right to.
- Affero GPL/AGPL: a license that builds upon GPL, adding a so called “virality clause” that states that any software that relies on AGPL software must also be published under AGPL and as such have their source code made readily available, this is primarily intended to prevent malicious actors from using obscured and modified free software to serve users malicious software.
The standard version of GPLv3 contains 17 sections that explicitly lay out in legal terms a user’s right to get access to the source code, modify it and use it for whatever intent they desire, republish modified versions, sharing non-source forms and frees the original author of any legal liability for whatever the user chooses to do with the software, among others.
Variants
Crypto-Anarchism
Crypto-Anarchism, also known as Cyberanarchism, wants to create an anarchist system through computer technology. They employ cryptographic software for confidentiality and security while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect privacy, political freedom, and economic freedom. By using cryptographic software, the association between the identity of a certain user or organization and the pseudonym they use is made difficult to find, unless the user reveals the association. Their motives are to defend against surveillance of computer network communication and censorship. They also want to build and participate in counter-economics, especially involving cryptocurrency, smart contract, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and decentralized finance (DeFi) technology in geral.
Personality and Behavior
Techno-Anarchism is a Linux elitist, uses Artix or Qubes, always has a handy Tails usb, he usually uses 13-year-old CPUs and other old hardware. Only uses RYF-approved hardware besides his Google Pixel phones running Graphene, refuses to use proprietary software, runs a canoebooted Thinkpad X220, all his connections are run through Tor and other networks, with the Linux-libre kernel on it. Will bring up FOSS someway or another.
How to Draw
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| White | #FFFFFF | rgb(255, 255, 255) | |
Relationships
Have access to private server
Agorism - Agree already that I'm just a modern version of you.
Anti-Authoritarianism - You do riots, I do tools. We will work great together.
Soulism - Way too radical, but still based.
Anarcho-Capitalism - Nobody should have any say in what I do with my own crypto!
Privacy Theory - My dad and four anonymous friends of mine.
Temporal link
Anarcho-Nihilism - Why do you say that we will not destroy the state by internet action?
E-Democracy - Right idea, but kinda implies some get more power than others, so I'm not quite sure about you.
Piratism - I fully support the rejection of intellectual property, but you're too electoralist.
Avaritionism - I mean, you are giving me money for making anarchy... But I checked your SSD and I don't like what I found.
Alt-Right - Nanochan was great, I miss it.
Neoreactionaryism - Stupid corporatocrat who said 2024 wasn't the year of the Linux desktop, wait, you think the future of computing is private?
Anarcho-Communism - Too many of you care to much about the politics side of freedom than on the tech side, but than again, Drummyfish is quite awesome even if he craps on privacy
Jannies and corpos
Police Statism - Breaks hard drive I'm sorry, what?
Corporatocracy - No, I didn't steal anything, it's called reverse engineering wink
Dengism - Biggest threat to our world. It's good they don't like to share how their great firewall works.
Juche - It's even worse. They basically created a country-sized local network.
Anarcho-Primitivism - NO, WE NEED TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE ANARCHISM, YOU STUPID MONKEY!!
Further Information
Wikipedia
Websites
Clearnet
- The Tor Project
- The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
- Invidious
- Mullvad VPN
- I2P Anonymous Network
- Monero
Darknet
Generally be careful when clicking this leaks if using the Tor Browser or any Tor-routed browser.
Literature
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar -
Eric Raymond - Free Software, Free Society by
Richard Stallman - The JavaScript Trap by Richard Stallman
- The Future of Private Computing by
Curtis Yarvin
Gallery
Alternative designs
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Flag of Crypto-Anarchism
