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by rrsmtz 1543 days ago
This is the line that every extremist group uses to justify their horrible acts.

Weaponizing open source is such an awful precedent. There are extremist groups of every shade who harbor ill intent towards some other group or institution. For a rather mundane example: "My malicious npm module detects you are running the Brave browser? The evil Brendan Eich runs that, say goodbye to your filesystem!" Never mind if you are part of a group that is mired in controversy, chief among them at this time being Russian.

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> This is the line that every extremist group uses to justify their horrible acts.

And in this case the 'horrible act' is not wanting your free labour to be used in another country.