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In the past the big multinational corporations did not give a shit about ethics. IBM happily sold Hitler machines to categorize jews gipsies slavs and gay people. Now programmers 'protest', or more accurately, attack what they conceive as evil, and it suddenly become a thing. Which one is better? Of course neither is good enough, but I certainly think programmers can express their views and values. Sometimes you have to admit that fairytale concepts, such as open source, or the internet that every person can get access to, or globalization, or the end of history, are hitting a hard wall. Maybe none of these thing from the last few decades are everlasting in the time scale of human history. If I have to choose between freedom of speech which proves true for like several hundreds of years and decades old open source, I would not hesitate.