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Remember, according to Flock's CEO, Deflock is a terrorist organization.
by cdrnsf 8mo ago
Remember, according to Flock's CEO, Deflock is a terrorist organization.
- mikece 8mo agoYes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.
- jLaForest 8mo agoPeople are allowed to say stupid things....and those people should be held accountable for the stupid things they say
- hsuduebc2 8mo agoEveryone who is not content with the way I do business must be a terrorist for sure. o_o
- technol0gic 8mo agoby "say stupid things," you of course mean "tell bald-faced lies"
- rl3 8mo agoThe most notable one: "Developers, developers, developers!"
- burkaman 8mo agoI don't think this is true, I can't even find anyone else claiming this happened.
- nullsanity 8mo ago[dead]
- dspillett 8mo agoI don't remember him calling Linus a terrorist, though there were others that associated anything with a copyleft licence to be the loony left (or the commie left). He certainly referred to both him and Linux as cancers though, that I do remember. He later changed his mind on that, and IIRC may even have publicly apologised for those statements.
- burkaman 8mo agoHe said Linux is a cancer, which was a stupid thing to say, but not the same as calling Linus a cancer. I say plenty of bad things about software that I would not say about the people who create it. I think Next.js is awful to use but that doesn't mean I think everyone at Vercel is an awful person, for example.
- dspillett 8mo agoHe may not have used the word cancer with respect to individuals, I can't find any such reference in a quick search, but he certainly had harsh words to say about proponents of Linux/OSS/similar.
- hsuduebc2 8mo agoLol, sure it is. Ridiculous.
- birdo-wordo 8mo ago[flagged]
- array_key_first 8mo agoA more generous term is civil disobedience. I think the argument is the original theft was using tax payers dollars on fancy tracking devices in the first place.
- birdo-wordo 8mo agoIt's not civil if it's law breaking.
- array_key_first 8mo agoThat's literally exactly what civil disobedience is.
- birdo-wordo 8mo agoNo that's uncivil disobedience. The difference is inaction vs action.
- culi 8mo ago> Civil disobedience is the active and nonviolent refusal to obey certain government laws, demands, or commands to achieve social change or protest injustice Most associated with MLK Jr, who explicitly advocated breaking the law
- smrq 8mo agoYou might wish to do some cursory research before arguing further. For example, as a starting point, the Wikipedia page on civil disobedience has an entire section labeled "Action" listing counterexamples.
- pc86 8mo ago