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The wording of this statement sounds very poorly thought out. Does a customer have to pay them? What if I argue I don't believe I should have to pay, or I have
by lazyasciiart 7y ago
The wording of this statement sounds very poorly thought out. Does a customer have to pay them? What if I argue I don't believe I should have to pay, or I have a moral objection? What if my belief in freedom says it's OK to ddos them? Presumably they'll fall back on something like "our contract says you have to pay us to use our services". Great. So you can and will refuse to work with a customer for a reason you chose, not an externally imposed restriction. The intended meaning is probably more like "we will work with anyone who works within our core beliefs about how society and payment for services should work, but we have not done the work of figuring out what those are in advance".
- tengbretson 7y agoYou're conflating beliefs and actions. I can have a moral objection to paying for Gitlab's services and still pay for Gitlab's services. I can write article after article about how it is immoral to pay for Gitlab's services. As long as I pay for their services, I will get them.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoI don't think anyone is suggesting that Gitlab and other tech companies stop selling to ICE because they disagree with the beliefs of the organization, but because they object to the actions ICE is taking. If you think those can be treated separately, then gitlab would still be able to say "we won't work with any customer who sells guns".