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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 05:18:52 UTC Strypey

   Remember when a bunch of us were lamenting the end of #GitHub as a (somewhat) neutral development platform for #FreeCode development, after it got bought by #McSoft, and lots of people were trying to tell us it was fine? Now they're enforcing racist trade sanctions on behalf of the US government:
   https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/locked-tech-company-comply-iran-sanctions-190731081829014.html

   Now I'm not one to say I told you so, but it's even clearer now how important code forge federation projects like #ForgeFed and #SourceHut are.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 05:24:48 UTC Strypey

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     Also, this is an example of what can happen when we normalize the idea of blocking groups of people from otherwise neutral technical platforms for political reasons. Which is why I've been consistently arguing against #Tusky developers' decision to block a certain domain name in their #Mastodon app, despite sympathizing with their political motivations for doing so.

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 11:38:00 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

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     • Tusky

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