Comment by charcircuit
9 days ago
Associating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
9 days ago
Associating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
Sorry, was I too punk rock on hacker news?
Unjust laws should be violated.
Who decides if a law is unjust?
We do. Using our consciences.
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This leads to anarchy or selective enforcement. Unjust laws should be removed.
In the US, the process of removing unjust laws generally involves violating them, so that courts have the opportunity to legislate from the bench.
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> Unjust laws should be removed.
Yeah, in an ideal world. Good luck with that.
We live in a deeply unjust world where laws are literally bought and paid for by corporations. This age verification nonsense is just the latest example. They aren't going to sit idle if we attack their lobbying efforts, they're going to come after us. God only knows what a surveillance company like Meta can do to you if they really hate your guts.
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It’s exactly what FOSS should look like IMO. Keep fighting the system.
You have made a claim with zero rationale to back it up.
Why shouldn't it look like that? Especially with a law this dumb
It doesn't make strategic sense to make open source projects the enemy of the people. Incentivizing legislation that hurts open source software is not helpful for open source software to thrive.
>Especially with a law this dumb
Allow software to know if the user is an adult or a child seems like a useful signal to me and is not dumb.
It is when those laws were passed by totalitarian idiots.
Being passed by a "totalitarian idiot" does not mean that a law is not valid.
What a serf mindset.
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