From Logic's May [interview with Alison Macrina](https://logicmag.io/security/free-as-in-smash-the-surveillance-state-alison-macrina-on-library-freedom/):
> **Q:**With both [Tor](https://www.torproject.org) and the [Library Freedom Project](https://libraryfreedom.org), you're making libraries places that are anti-capitalist not just because they're free, but also because data harvesting won't work in there. You're making a Faraday cage around libraries.
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> **Macrina:** I love that. I do think of libraries as one of the most socialist institutions that we have in the US in 2020: they are funded with public money. They are not means-tested. They're everywhere. You talk to the average librarian about why they got into the profession and there is a real love for the public. You can go into a library and you don't even have to use it for its explicit purpose of looking at books or magazines or computers. You can just go there and be, even if you’re the kind of person that late capitalism has decided is not worthwhile. To the library, you are. And this is a radical idea. Libraries’ doors are still open, even as their budgets get cut. They’re special spaces and I want to help them expand what they're capable of doing.
The closure of public libraries—a profound and unassailable necessity—has been among the greatest short-run costs of the pandemic.