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Associating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
by charcircuit 8mo ago
Associating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
- 3842056935870 8mo agoIt is when those laws were passed by totalitarian idiots.
- charcircuit 8mo agoBeing passed by a "totalitarian idiot" does not mean that a law is not valid.
- Tostino 8mo agoWhat a serf mindset.
- iamnothere 8mo agoDon’t be so unkind to serfs, most of them were merely stuck in an impossible situation, and to my knowledge most were not eunuchs.
- charcircuit 8mo agoWanting society to be run effectively and not be blighted with rule breakers does not make me a serf. I have used my free will to decide that I want to live in and respect society.
- thepasch 8mo agoThat would be a lot easier to believe if this law in question actually, you know, helped society. Or did anything to affect how it runs, let alone “effectively.” As it stands, it reads more like “I’ve used my free will to decide to suspend all critical thinking and accept that anything that anyone with authority decides should be a rule must be unquestioningly accepted.”
- matheusmoreira 8mo agoUnjust laws should be violated.
- charcircuit 8mo agoThis leads to anarchy or selective enforcement. Unjust laws should be removed.
- matheusmoreira 8mo ago> Unjust laws should be removed. Yeah, in an ideal world. Good luck with that. We live in a deeply unjust world where laws are literally bought and paid for by corporations. This age verification nonsense is just the latest example. They aren't going to sit idle if we attack their lobbying efforts, they're going to come after us. God only knows what a surveillance company like Meta can do to you if they really hate your guts.
- throw10920 8mo agoOK, so then you think the entire system is corrupt, and you should reform/replace it. Selective rejection of laws based on your own personal morals is wrong in every circumstance. Either you believe the system is just and you follow all the rules (and work through the system to changes the individual rules you believe are unjust), or you believe that the system is fundamentally unjust and you take drastic action to fix it. If you don't, then you're a hypocrite - you don't really believe that the system is unjust, you're just using that as an excuse to selectively ignore laws you disagree with.
- matheusmoreira 8mo ago> you think the entire system is corrupt I do. > you should reform/replace it This is a way to reform it. If nobody obeys a law, is it really illegal? It's more like a custom. > Selective rejection of laws based on your own personal morals is wrong in every circumstance. So if your so called authorities passed a law saying you're required to participate in some atrocity such as genocide, you'd do it with a clean conscience? Okay. > you believe that the system is fundamentally unjust and you take drastic action to fix it I don't have the power to do so. Also, people who try "drastic" actions are called terrorists.
- akersten 8mo agoSorry, was I too punk rock on hacker news?
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- iamnothere 8mo agoIt’s exactly what FOSS should look like IMO. Keep fighting the system.
- kloop 8mo agoYou have made a claim with zero rationale to back it up. Why shouldn't it look like that? Especially with a law this dumb
- charcircuit 8mo agoIt doesn't make strategic sense to make open source projects the enemy of the people. Incentivizing legislation that hurts open source software is not helpful for open source software to thrive. >Especially with a law this dumb Allow software to know if the user is an adult or a child seems like a useful signal to me and is not dumb.