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Our phones have all kinds of spyware on it from the vendor, from Google and from 3rd party apps. They probably also have, as well as routers, tons of vulnerabilities know but not fixed due to the lack of interest from the vendors. Sometimes Google cancel accounts blocking access to all of it's data without giving reason or recourse.

It's 'funny' and hypocritical (as many folks here work for Google and other companies related to aforementioned issues) that we're condemning a dude for getting emotional and causing limited damage on cyberspace while a crazy dude is wrecking destruction on meatspace, killing thousands and threatening the World with nuclear war.

I understand the fears that this can undermine this nice thing we have that is opensource. Though the nice thing is that individuals voluntarily share code for whatever intrinsic reasons they have. MIT provides no warranty of any kind and there's no moral obligation to serve and make it corp-friendly. As developers our code is generally the only 'real' power we have and we can't deny that guy his agency.

RIAEvangelist was sloppy and probably will suffer consequences for his activism. Being banned from Github and NPM registry are expected and fair due to probable ToS violations and the interest of the organizations in preserving trust. But I fail to see how what he did is more or less ethical than financial sanctions like those recent applied to Russia. If he were to make it look like a mistake it would save him the trouble because ignorance/incompetence are socially accepted.