The biggest problem is not that it's proprietary software - the biggest problem is that the software does not work as intended. There are multiple factors that

The biggest problem is not that it's proprietary software - the biggest problem is that the software does not work as intended. There are multiple factors that lead to the software not working - and none of them stem from the fact that it's proprietary. (The Stallman notion that anything other than copyleft needs to be erased is fucking ridiculous - and I really don't think that you'll find traction with it on a site where almost everyone uses the profits from software to feed themselves and their families.) There is a related notion that would have granted you some traction - that tax payer funded software should be open source. This nicely parallels the issue of public access to publicly funded scientific research - which has gotten a lot of traction here, over time. As far as rising authoritarianism is concerned, you've chosen a weird hill to die on. The court is packed, and the already broken two party system is being gerrymandered into oblivion. You're focusing on the tools being used without regard for the intention and the users. Anyway, you didn't even get to the fun part of the conversation - that facial recognition struggles with black people and women. Which is a fun little conversation that people like to politicise and blame on the people who wrote the code.