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by cronix 2508 days ago
I'm sure there are many, many others being used, that you aren't aware of. Do you really think the US Military are the only ones to use redhat, or mysql, or any other major opensource project in their weapons of war and surveillance programs? You're contributing to a lot more than you think you are, and supplying every side with the tech. It's free for anybody to use, even terrorists and nation states.
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In general the world is infinitely interconnected and any tool can be used for good or evil. Don't sell powerful technologies to oppressive governments, but it's also pointless to lose sleep over nth-order relations to bad people doing bad things.