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Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub by rakoo on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:10AM (#35481744)
You cannot remove politics from IT infrastructure. Politics is everywhere. Politics is deciding how we live together as a society; the very fact we're having this discussion is politics.

It's the fable of being apolitical that is a mistake, because in doing so you are strengthening the status quo and prevent others from thinking about the situation and changing it.

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Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub by fauigerzigerk on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:43AM (#35482069)
I agree that nothing is completely free of politics. What I'm advocating is to tolerate a wider spectrum of political opinions regarding access to IT infrastructure than we may be willing to tolerate in other contexts.

I believe that this stance can be justified on a technical level that is only very remotely linked to the main political ideologies of our time.

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