# kaal:claim:3931933-007

**Claim.** The lack of developer liberalization carries negative societal consequences: when developers are restrained from building what they see as cutting edge and socially beneficial, society's own capacity to experiment with new technology is severely hampered.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- developer communities constrained by centralized platform control

**Source quote.**

> The lack of developer liberalization has negative societal ramifications. If the developer community is restrained from building technology it sees as cutting edge and beneficial for society, societies' ability to experiment with such new technology solutions is severely hampered.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake* (2021), Platform Centralization, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `55a71cdfceb96fadefba1f2fed9563b588825378c91aff644ee7faaccdf31204` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Hybrid%20Secure%20Proof%20of%20Stake.pdf

**Failure mode.** constrained developer experimentation  (family: innovation-chilling)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, decentralization, innovation

**Keywords.** developer-liberalization, societal-experimentation, platform-centralization, innovation, technology-adoption

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