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by zizek23 2954 days ago
Perhaps open source licenses should prohibit their use for adware, spyware and surveillance.

Apart from a plethora of open source projects to build its websites Google is using Android to hoover user data and open source should not be used to support a surveillance state.

This is a can of worms and probably not enforceable but it's worth it just for taking a stand.