It’s capitalism and centralized control. Once again, Linux and open source projects, scientists etc. do not have such an issue. Their software is available to

It’s capitalism and centralized control. Once again, Linux and open source projects, scientists etc. do not have such an issue. Their software is available to everyone everywhere. These organizations have taken a “stance” alright — and that is basically that anyone can use it for any purpose. Including satire! I bet you Stable Diffusion won’t have such a controversy. The fact that GitHub had to beg the permission of the US government to let their centralized platform serve open source software to Iran says quite a lot. It shows how centralized governments and corporations create the problems to start with, whereas gift economies don’t have any of these problems https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215588/github-iran-sanction-exemption-license-granted-us-treasury-microsoft https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215588/github-iran-sanct...