It always kinda scares me when I read certain comments. They’re not numerous, but I see more of them each year. They say things like « the woke EU », or the « EUssr », or « socialist EU ».
They’re generally there when I talk about the EU regulating big tech, or fighting abuses of dominant position, and I just don’t understand how anyone can link that kind of activity to being « woke » whatever that means today, or being « socialist » (which in these people’s minds probably means « commie »).
At a time where we should have more compassion, a serious re-evaluation of our priorities, our way of life, of consumption, it’s disheartening.
And especially in the Linux community where helping others and sharing is at the very core of everything: how do you reconcile « no one should have « handouts » (except tax cuts for companies apparently) with « let’s share knowledge openly and develop things for others to use freely »?
@thelinuxEXP @Alkaris Well the EU is good about corporate invasions of privacy but they *love* state invasions of privacy, unfortunately.
The tide seems to be turning on that a bit.
@thelinuxEXP for anyone unfamiliar (since this might be seen by people well outside the NixOS community):
@thelinuxEXP do you think a license which requires reciprocity makes any sense?
Example modified start of the MIT license:
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any non-racist person [...]
Not sure what wording to use so I picked racism as an example / proof of concept. The term should be very basic such that everyone who isn't evil will agree with it. Assuming such a word can be found, would this make sense to add? Similar to the licenses requiring reciprocity in sharing back
@Jawaka @thelinuxEXP It feels like they decided that « woke » means anything they don’t like, and this also seems to include trying to discriminate less, or being more accepting of others.
When someone uses the term « woke » seriously, I generally tend to automatically discard what they’re saying, because that term is rarely used to mean anything other than « I’m very conservative and I don’t like change in society ».
It has become so on the right, which is, unfortunately, another way in which something from the Black (African-American) tradition of social commentary has been taken and ruined, so that now something which was very serious when created cannot be taken seriously, as Nick says, because it has been coopted by bad actors.
@light @thelinuxEXP @jezebelkat Indeed. I also block anyone with country flag emojis. I don’t want or need nationalists and patriots in my feed.
As someone wise once said, patriotism is the conviction that your country is the best simply because you were born there.
@Jawaka @thelinuxEXP @jezebelkat
According to this article its Samuel Johnson from whom said it originally, but there's multiple variations of the phrase "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" said by different people.
@thelinuxEXP Don't let them use your platform to advertise themselves. It is not their "rights" to hijack your comments for their own.
Block them without remorse. It is moderation, not "censorship", no matter how they love to use that word.
And don't forget to stay awesome as usual. :)
As if being woke is a problem (again, the origin is African-Americans and it simply means being aware of inequality in our systems), and Europe has had center left socialist/social democratic/democratic socialist parties since the end of WW2. A little late to be complaining.
@ratatoskr @thelinuxEXP Eu’s policies don’t just target big tech companies in the US, they also target anyone in the same position of power.
Everyone needs to comply with GDPR, everyone needs to comply with DMA etc. If EU only goes after TikTok then that would be hypocritical since they aren’t the only company who collects data about their users.
@kAlvaro @thelinuxEXP True. Seeing all these far right parties gaining voters is insane to me. It was less than 100 years ago that we had to contend with this.
We have to contend with it right now, with Russia… How can people be this blind, I don’t know.
@thelinuxEXP @kAlvaro Some people are truly desperate and it’s also fair to state that national leaders as well as European leaders just failed to address their issues.
Comparatively to the US, China or India, the EU quality of life and economy-security has stagnated and there’s a significant decoupling from people in the EU.
https://tinyurl.com/3utz4p2z
Tough to wake up hanged-over after 20 years of doing the wrong things and suddenly realize “Oh shit people are pissed ! Why ? How ?”
“Política Exterior” magazine carries out a comparative analysis of the economic growth of the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and China. In its opinion, Europe's decisions in recent years have highlighted its weaknesses in the struggle for global leadership. Europe's slower economic growth would be the consequence of its failure to lead in some of the leading sectors, poor policy decisions, and its inability to keep pace with the US and China, not least because of a less flexible regulatory framework. On the positive side, the EU has established itself as the welfare region par excellence.
Ironically, no country's economy on this planet is either totally Capitalism or Communism
In other words, every one is Socialist 😂
@thelinuxEXP sounds like unhinged fanboy-ism to me...
Still, that's not the way to go. We need to keep the biggest players on a leash, or else they'll put us on it. There's basically no way for small companies to get around in a field where e.g. Google or Apple are already in a monopoly.
Cyberpunk is an interesting universe, still I like to be able to leave it, when I close the game 😅 and not something, I want my kids to live in.
Well it is because these people have no idea what they are talking about. Not about freedom, not about civil rights, not about social security nor about democracy or freedom of speech.
Woke is fascists coming up with a term consideration and empathy which they despise.
Also most of them can't tell the difference between Socialism and Communism which given their extremist worldview isn't too surprising.
Big tech badly needs regulating and the US can't or won't do it. So others will need to do it for them 🙂🤷♂️
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
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