Re:GitHub is now free for teams
by hamandcheese on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:11PM
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Presumably ICE buys light bulbs. Should we also call out light bulb manufacturers and distributors for “working with ICE”?
It’s not about politics for me, but rather the viewpoint that companies shouldn’t be the moral police of their customers.
If they do so directly, then yes, most certainly.
I mean, I'm open to discussing whether we should or shouldn't, but I think it's not an off-topic discussion!
Re:GitHub is now free for teams
by DennisAleynikov on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:30PM
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pretty off topic to bring up customers of a lightbulb factory to shame them for selling headlamps to tanks...
All right, point taken - this is a politically incorrect discussion and we should be self-censoring ourselves.
No, your comment just doesn't make sense. Lightbulb manufacturers are not responsible for wars because tanks have lightbulbs in them, and GitHub is not responsible for all the harm in the world either because some bad actors use GitHub.
Sorry, I can't even discuss this with you. I rather disagree - this is what the whole "military-industrial complex" is about - but it's off-topic and forbidden.
This is totally not what the "military-industrial complex" is about. Wow.
The MIC concept is a specific application of the general idea of regulatory capture of policymakers to the vertical of defence contracting. This is nothing like that: the corporation here isn't a defence contractor and they're not bribing the government. It fits 0%.
Re:GitHub is now free for teams
by DennisAleynikov on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:07PM
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organized crime doesn't exist. governments are indeed allowed to commit organized crime as you said.
if you want to overthrow or change that government you are free to do so. revenue obtained from that government is as bloodstained as any capitalist money, and most sources of profit can be dismissed as exploitive. its quite literally the point of profits.
if github teams were funded by isis I literally would not change my opinion on github.
Is it just US government agencies, or would it be appropriate again to ask if the funding were coming from ISIS?
Also, is it generally the case that complaints about the NSA and their spying programs are off-topic for HN because they too are a US government agency? Or is that different?