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I used to donate to Wikipedia until I found they that have plenty of money already. I used to donate to Mozilla until I found that they don't use the money for
by guidovranken 6y ago
I used to donate to Wikipedia until I found they that have plenty of money already. I used to donate to Mozilla until I found that they don't use the money for Firefox development but for anti-free speech propaganda like [1]. I have donated to the EFF and the Internet Archive a few times. I wanted to donate to UBlock Origin but the developer doesn't want it [2]. I'd like to give something to youtube-dl because I use it extensively but apparently that's not possibly either [3]. I should consider donating to Ubuntu/Debian, I've never done that despite being a long time user.. For my work I mostly use open source software by Google and I think they'll survive without my money. Other than that I've mostly given to smaller podcasts and websites.
[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/976 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/976
[3] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2238 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2238
- austincheney 6y agoThe Mozilla link is indeed distressing. Technology controls are not solutions for extremism. That is a failed approach going back to the Gutenberg press. Counter-intuitively observing the free expression and movement of extremist groups is a way to measure the patterns of free expression. Free speech is often not nice speech.