Aral BalkanFeb 2, 2018

I want to make one thing very clear regarding #fosdem2018 #fosdem

A conference on freedom-and-human-rights-respecting technology should not have a titan of #SurveillanceCapitalism like Google as sponsor. The good people in our community shouldn’t have to choose between having a platform to meet up at and having their legitimacy usurped by association to whitewash such companies. I’m attending under protest to meet and chat to some lovely members of the community.

Google doesn’t belong there.

Show threadAdrian Cochrane

@aral On the one hand, Google et al belong as they benefit tremendously from free software's freedom. On the otherhand, they don't as they refuse to pass that freedom on to their "users".

Personally, like you, I prefer not.

And Amazon definitely not as ontop of everything their employees aren't allowed to upstream their work for Amazon. Terrible policy.

Feb 2, 2018 at 6:43pmWeb