[bakhy]

although i would personally consider all of the above unethical to some degree, i think i could understand someone thinking differently about Facebook Free Basics, Stingray, and Red Star. someone might put more weight to giving the poor any "internet", than giving them proper, neutral internet. Stingrays are used by legitimate law enforcement agencies, although i don't know much about how and under what conditions. and Red Star, well, all of that is legal there and not complying with the Kim can cost NK citizens their heads, so i'd cut a lot of slack there.

but investing your work in a company which sells surveillance equipment to dictators is downright disgusting. people are being tortured and killed because their governments managed to track them down thanks to that company. that seems like complete moral ambivalence at work. even if one could have somehow rationalized enabling their own government to spy, upon finding out who the company sells to, they must quit. and perhaps also leak everything.