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It's American Privilege, pure and simple. Anything tech is pretty much American and so the rest of the world gets dragged into their bullshit.
by secondcoming 6y ago
It's American Privilege, pure and simple. Anything tech is pretty much American and so the rest of the world gets dragged into their bullshit.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI find that there is quite a bit of technology that isn't, but that also seems to be less interested in moral police. GNOME is of the U.S.A. and well known for its livid codes of conduct; KDE is of German origins, and seems to be more lax in this. Even with Linux, Linus, a Finn living in the U.S.A., has long resisted it and even referenced this difference between Finnish and U.S.A. culture, but eventually relented.
- secondcoming 6y agoI got the impression the Linus wasn't given much choice. Is there an open-source project, US or not, that the Code of Conduct saga hasn't touched?
- fapjacks 6y agoAnd here we have arrived at the crux of the problem. Should we just throw up our hands and say "Then just don't use American tech"? I think this move by Uganda (and your comment) illustrate the same frustration that we in America feel at the power these monopolies are exerting over public discourse (for some various definitions of "public discourse").
- secondcoming 6y agoI don't think we can't not use it. But anyone on AWS or GCP needs to have a plan for the case where their business is suddenly deemed unacceptable (for whatever reason) and they may get cancelled. The entire world cannot now use Parler (disclosure: I've never downloaded or used it) because a hundred or so people broke into a US government building for 2 hours.