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>Mixing software with politics never ends well in a democracy. This is just so obviously absurd, in order to give you the benefit of the doubt, I need have to
by cazum 8y ago
>Mixing software with politics never ends well in a democracy.
This is just so obviously absurd, in order to give you the benefit of the doubt, I need have to assume that you and I must have functionally different definitions of what "political" means
All software licenses and ToS are political. The GPLs clause about upholding the essential freedoms is political.
Enforcing age restrictions on porn websites is politics.
You can't really escape it.
In a plutocracy (the system in the United states) laws are created by those with power (corporations and their lobbyists). If citizens hold any potential power over these corporations to uphold the will of the people, it should be their civic duty to flex on the nerds throwing children in torture prisons.
If your main objection to this is that it might split the community of an open source project, might I remind you that this software is being used by the tyrants throwing children into torture prisons and tearing apart families for ever. This is worth getting into some OSS politics over.