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>noun: virtue signalling >the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correc
by vzidex 7y ago
>noun: virtue signalling
>the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.
By definition this isn't virtue signalling, GitHub is putting $300k of their own money where their mouth is.
- andonisus 7y agoThis is virtue signalling according the very definition you provided. Just because they are also backing it up with money does not make not virtue signalling. I'm simply tired of having politics injected into technology and software companies whose own software is itself apolitical.
- camel_Snake 7y agoThey aren't solely expressing opinions though. They are backing it up with action. You may doubt their sincerity but that alone qualifies it as more than virtue signalling.
- andonisus 7y agoVirtue signaling doesn't mean solely expressing opinions... I don't doubt their sincerity at all. I believe that companies selling apolitical software services should not care about policing what customers use their software. We are talking about software that tracks changes of software, not facial recognition or drone firmware. Obviously, Github believes otherwise.