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"I don't care who has written the code, code itself is apolitical" When backdoors are added to your service framework, when dragnet data collection services c
by ipsocannibal 6y ago
"I don't care who has written the code, code itself is apolitical"
When backdoors are added to your service framework, when dragnet data collection services copy every artifact of your digital existence in the name of "national security" or when algorithms have been trained to distinguish faces specificly of your race you will damn sure want to know who wrote that code and why. Its just naive to think tools exist outside of their intended function and political ends often determine those functions.
- MaKey 6y agoI agree. I was aiming at the context of the parent comment. The employer of someone (e. g. Facebook) shouldn't have an effect on how their code is treated.
- gnud 6y agoBut when you use projects pushed by big companies, you are giving those companies word-of-mouth advertising, and when their projects become popular they get a pool of pre-trained engineers for free. So if you honestly feel that a company is pure evil, you really ought to avoid any open source project they publish. Not because the code is political, but because everything surrounding the code is.