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We have a system for determining these kinds of questions - the courts. It's not the open source community's responsibility to make sure other organizations are
by BitwiseFool 7y ago
We have a system for determining these kinds of questions - the courts. It's not the open source community's responsibility to make sure other organizations are behaving ethically.
If people believe ICE has broken laws and violated human rights they should be pursuing a trial, not attacking the organization's ability to host Git repos.
- mfer 7y agoThe courts deal with what's legal and illegal rather than what's right or wrong or ethical or unethical. This situation appears to be a case where people are trying to use free market pressure to influence companies to not do business with those they deem doing something wrong or unethical rather than illegal.
- mschuster91 7y ago> If people believe ICE has broken laws and violated human rights they should be pursuing a trial That would require a fair and balanced court system which the US lacks.
- CompanionCuuube 7y agoThis is the same kind of justification for taking the law into your own hands because you don't think that the justice system will do its job.