I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

  • red@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    3 months ago

    well yeah, how does us being democracy change the fact that they basically did almost everything that Russia did

    • troed@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      16
      ·
      3 months ago

      “basically”

      You’ll be surprised if you actually challenge your convictions.

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        I did, and I found that the US does WORSE shit than Russia sometimes.

        Russia ain’t good. Neither is the US. Get your head out of your ass.

        • troed@fedia.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          11
          ·
          3 months ago

          Heard about what Russia has been doing in the occupied parts of Ukraine?

          • basmati@lemmus.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            Heard about what the US did in Afghanistan? US soldiers raped a LOT of children before and after murdering their entire families.

            • troed@fedia.io
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              3 months ago

              Tell me more about the US government requiring their soldiers to rape pre-teen girls then.

              Or, you know, they really aren’t the same.