Notices

1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 10:16:56 CET Aral Balkan

   • conservancy

   Why we can’t regulate Google, etc:

   Because of useful idiots like @conservancy legitimising them by being sponsored by them.

   Me: Google is a surveillance capitalist that makes billions tracking and profiling you. They are a threat to our human rights and democracy. We just regulate them.

   Policymaker: you must be mistaken, they’re the good guys. Look, here they are allowed to sponsor CopyLeft Conf with the FSF logo displayed proudly next to theirs.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 10:38:51 CET Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • conservancy

     @conservancy * We _must_ regulate them, even. #typo

   • Neon Cipher (neoncipher@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 14:47:11 CET Neon Cipher

     in reply to

     • Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
     • conservancy

     Some of the foundations not only take Google's money, but also let Google dictate what to do. GNOME has this rule for the Board of Directors:
     "Keep confidential discussions private. This includes legal discussions or conversations with the Advisory Board." Google is in the "Advisory" Board.

     https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard

     @aral @conservancy
     @bob

     Aral Balkan repeated this.