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- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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Do you mean completely free? If I went to a courthouse and demanded every record from every trial that they have conducted since the very beginning, should I be able to walk away with a huge stack of paper?
In the digital age, that shit don’t even have to be on paper or require a government employee to find and serve it up to you.
No, you should just get a shoebox full of microfilm. Or maybe you could just download some files, since we have this insane shit now called computers, where completely electronic documents are stored in virtual folders.
And these things (computers) are mental. You don’t even have to read a few thousand pages anymore to find out whether some name is contained in the text. Just press Ctrl+F and it’ll “read” thousands of pages and highligt every occurrence. Within a split second! That used to be multiple days of work for some cheap law trainee.
Soon we won’t, as the wealth defense industry has advised ordinary citizens be stripped of the power of personal computing.
