Dare ObasanjoDec 28, 2022

The New York Times comes out against encrypted apps like Signal using the classic arguments of terrorism and CSAM but puts their unique anti-tech spin on it by arguing

"Small groups of technologists are developing and deploying applications of their technologies for explicitly ideological reasons, with those ideologies baked into the technologies. To use those technologies is to use a tool that comes with an ethical or political bent."

This has always been the case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

Opinion | Jack Dorsey and the Dangers of Privacy At All Costs

The debate about dilemmas posed by the text messaging system.

The New York Times
Show threadDare ObasanjoDec 28, 2022

Using Open Source or Free Software is using a tool that comes with an ethical or political bent.

Using commercial software is also doing the same except that since what you are supporting is capitalism, it's like a fish that doesn't understand the concept of being in water. We don't even notice it.

Show threadBoudDec 28, 2022

@carnage4life

Software satisfying the Open Source [1] or Free Software [2] definition *is* necessarily commercial software. You can legally sell it. If you can't legally sell it, then it's not #FOSS.

Google+Facebook (2 parts of #GAFAM) run huge commercial businesses mostly running on FOSS. Even the #AGPLv3 is compatible with capitalism.

The opposing word that is needed here is *proprietary* software [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software

The Free Software Definition - Wikipedia

Show threadBarak Ollama, Esq.

@boud @carnage4life

Also commerce and capitalism aren't the same thing to everyone.

Dec 29, 2022 at 12:26amWeb