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That depends on what you view as important. I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goa

That depends on what you view as important. I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society. Using a "free libre web browser" or any other free software is trivial in comparison. As such, I believe that making a person who has contributed to fight against these goals the leader of your corporation is a terrible decision that will lead me to no longer recommend any of your products, even if that means recommending non-free software. You're welcome to disagree with that view, but I don't see how it's stupid.

anaphor 13y ago
> I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society I agree, which is why I want people to have control over how they do their computing, which, by the way does affect LGBT issues: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/digital-freedom-lgbt-issue https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/digital-freedom-lgbt-i...
- tommorris 13y ago
  Interestingly: that EFF link seems to have ignored the biggest LGBT/electronic freedom overlap IMHO - censorware. The people who make censorware often automatically include anything LGBT-related as porn. Here in the UK, O2 filters the Wikipedia articles on 'gay', 'lesbian' and 'transgender' under the "Lifestyles" category—the very term that homophobes use! LGBT campaigning sites and safe sex sites have been filtered on corporate and state-owned wifi connections as pornography. And the UK government's plan to try and introduce on-by-default internet filtering will lead to LGBT teenagers not able to look up safe sex information online when said information gets miscategorised by the censorware manufacturers as 'porn'. Not to mention, the censorware that automatically alerts the 'concerned' parents running it as to what little Jimmy is doing on the Internet - that's going to potentially out kids to their parents and put them at risk of being made homeless by their fundamentalist nutjob parents. As a closeted gay teenager, I'm really fucking glad to have grown up in an era where the internet for me was uncensored precisely because having access to a resource that had information - and, yes, porn - that showed being gay as normal, healthy and okay was a refreshing, sanity-inducing change from the rest of society that didn't.

anaphor 13y ago

> I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society I agree, which is why I want people to have control over how they do their computing, which, by the way does affect LGBT issues: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/digital-freedom-lgbt-issue https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/digital-freedom-lgbt-i...

tommorris 13y ago
Interestingly: that EFF link seems to have ignored the biggest LGBT/electronic freedom overlap IMHO - censorware. The people who make censorware often automatically include anything LGBT-related as porn. Here in the UK, O2 filters the Wikipedia articles on 'gay', 'lesbian' and 'transgender' under the "Lifestyles" category—the very term that homophobes use! LGBT campaigning sites and safe sex sites have been filtered on corporate and state-owned wifi connections as pornography. And the UK government's plan to try and introduce on-by-default internet filtering will lead to LGBT teenagers not able to look up safe sex information online when said information gets miscategorised by the censorware manufacturers as 'porn'. Not to mention, the censorware that automatically alerts the 'concerned' parents running it as to what little Jimmy is doing on the Internet - that's going to potentially out kids to their parents and put them at risk of being made homeless by their fundamentalist nutjob parents. As a closeted gay teenager, I'm really fucking glad to have grown up in an era where the internet for me was uncensored precisely because having access to a resource that had information - and, yes, porn - that showed being gay as normal, healthy and okay was a refreshing, sanity-inducing change from the rest of society that didn't.