GrapheneOSGrapheneOS opposes authoritarianism. It's a core part of why we're building privacy technology as part of a non-profit open source project. We're opposed to it regardless of whether it comes from left, center or right. The flood of people lying about what we believe and have said won't change this.
Our beliefs are not defined by what people who use GrapheneOS or donate to it believe. We decide what's acceptable within our community and we do a lot of moderation. We don't police what's done fully outside it. We clearly won't only have users, donors and supporters with beliefs aligned with ours.
We don't usually allow much political discussion in our community unless it's directly related to GrapheneOS. Today has been a very good demonstration of why that's the case. Many people are unable to tolerate even a minor disagreement on semantics without being absolutely enraged about it.
Greymalkin@GrapheneOS "Don't let the b*stards grind you down." Criticism of an essential project like GOS will always come from those who attempt to discredit and destroy you.
Random Sapiens@Greymalkin77 @GrapheneOS exactly, don't lose focus over this
stilic@GrapheneOS i'm sorry but if you go out of your way to let the very equivalent of people like trump sponsor you... that's not a good look
@stilic Can you explain how you think we're doing that? Should we be requiring interviews for donors about their political views before taking their money?
@GrapheneOS yes because that's like... a reasonable thing to do?
Antsyboi@stilic @GrapheneOS GOS doesn't listen to what it's donors request. A notable example of this iirc is their drama with FUTO whilst still accepting donations. GrapheneOS can receive funding from whoever and that doesn't mean that they're now influenced by them. This isn't like lobbying and GrapheneOS doesn't bend to its donors interest and from what I know is not entirely dependent on a major single donor to stay afloat so they have no incentive to do so.
@antsyboi @GrapheneOS ...then why can't they just drop the sponsorship? Money is more important than morals?
M@stilic @antsyboi @GrapheneOS its more likely they need the money for funding but aren't desperate enough to bend the knee I'm assuming the policy at graphene OS is like its nice if u fund us but no strings attached type of situation
@stilic @GrapheneOS Its not compromising on their morals to accept donations with no strings attached. If they can get more money to funs the project without outside influence now dictating it, but why not take the money?
- It doesn't dictate the project
- It creates no outside influence
- The donation will support important privacy tool development
I don't get why they shouldn't take the money as a non-profit taking a no-strings-attached donation that will only serve to help GOS improve.
- It doesn't dictate the project
- It creates no outside influence
- The donation will support important privacy tool development
I don't get why they shouldn't take the money as a non-profit taking a no-strings-attached donation that will only serve to help GOS improve.
berdario@stilic @GrapheneOS who is the "equivalent of people like trump"?
I see that there was another post recently discussing sponsorship
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116813504927275090
The only name I recognise in there is Mullvad (who has recently been revealed as having one of the co-owners funding the far right in Sweden)
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Attached: 1 image Our update servers are sponsored by Mullvad, ReliableSite, Cherry Servers, Zare and Xenyth. You can see those here: https://grapheneos.org/articles/grapheneos-servers#releases.grapheneos.org The screenshot shows bandwidth usage for Frankfurt with staggered rollout to 10th gen, then 9th, then 8th and finally 7th+6th together.
@berdario @GrapheneOS the Mullvad co-owner who was funding that one far right party
SidTheShuckle@stilic @berdario @GrapheneOS GrapheneOS does not support tankies or nationalists. Orebro is both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Örebro_Party
Even the workers of Mullvad don’t support the CEO’s political donation. Thats how you know CEOs dont care about you
@sidtheshuckle @berdario @GrapheneOS if it's the position, I hope they understand that they still enpower the reputation of the wrong people
I don't care if it's one guy, if there's no official statement from Mullvad, they should have moved on if they didn't agree instead of eating the cake that they got offered
I don't care if it's one guy, if there's no official statement from Mullvad, they should have moved on if they didn't agree instead of eating the cake that they got offered