“We’re open source but not open source enough to your liking” is a VERY strange criteria for “evil” when most other commercial software companies are not open source at all.
This 100%. To not care about politics means to not care about how the entity with a monopoly on violence wants to take your money against your will and allocate it. If you don’t care about that, then you and I are not going to get along.
They are required by law to turn over the chats. This isn’t hard to understand.
Definitionally not journalistic malpractice because words have meanings. Carry on.
Why should they make an effort to break the laws of countries they do business in? If they don’t like the laws, they shouldn’t do business there.
“Company follows laws in the country it operates in.” More at 11.
Great. Do Pinterest next.
They’re not neutral though. They’ve already started defederating instances with users whose opinions they don’t like.
Are you kidding? Name a cleaner protein source than chicken lol
Definitionally is
Defederation is stupid and should never be done, not even for instances with Nazi communities. Just let the users decide to block those communities themselves.
Game show question: Is this the right talking about how to get better teachers, or the left talking about how to get better police?