"Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man."

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Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.

— Noam Chomsky