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Said of a computer system with excessive or annoyingsecurity barriers, usage limits, or access policies. Theimplication is that said policies are preventing hackers fromgetting interesting work done. The variant "fascistic" seemsto have been preferred at MIT.In the design of languages and other software tools, "thefascist alternative" is the most restrictive and structuredway of capturing a particular function; the implication isthat this may be desirable in order to simplify theimplementation or provide tighter error checking. Comparebondage-and-discipline language, although that term isglobal rather than local.