charles

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[–] charles@lemmy.computer.surgery 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was something like this,

Surely people who argue that Linux isn't politically charged because its creator is politically charged will also argue that Lemmy isn't politically charged even though its creators are, right? Right?

except it was written in a way that was more annoying to read.

Edit: I'm assuming reposting the content is fine since the modlog showed that this user was banned and had their messages removed for reasons unrelated to this particular comment.

[–] charles@lemmy.computer.surgery 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Programming code is pure logic and has no opinions.

Can you explain to me how, for example, Stuxnet is apolitical?

All they do is permit/restrict specific rights to attribute, use, modify, reproduce, distribute, etc. the code.

Can you explain how these restrictions/permissions are apolitical?

[–] charles@lemmy.computer.surgery 15 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Honestly I don't understand this kind of argument. Linux is political: compare it to its alternatives, look at the license it's released under, and so on. Lemmy is the same way. Lemmy even has a section in the manual about how it's fundamentally political: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html