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by chickenfries 2638 days ago
Do you not use anything from the GNU project because of their politics?
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ecmascript 2638 days ago
What politics do they enforce on me by using their products?
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chickenfries 2638 days ago
Free software is a political movement. Calling it “free” was a political choice to convince people that proprietary software is “unfree”. I really don’t know where to begin explaining this...
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ecmascript 2638 days ago
Well yes, but they are not policing speech as far as I know. I have nothing against people/projects being political, it's when a specific political view that I do not agree with gets enforced upon me that the issue arises.
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airstrike 2637 days ago
Companies and institutions have every right to define what is acceptable speech in their own universes

And freedom of speech isn't an absolute right – not even in the U.S., but even less so in pretty much any other advanced Western democracy.

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