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using github is indirectly supporting fascism #1144

Open PaulFree14 opened 6 years ago

PaulFree14 commented 6 years ago

As many of you propably know, github got bought by microsoft. Yet there is many to say about microsoft, but I believe it's important to have current events in mind, and how the struggle for free software can be linked with those of others.

That's how resisting becomes more powerfull, when the opressed give visability to each others struggle and take action of solidary.

Microsoft is currently supporting ICE. Take on that matter also a look at this: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/20/godwins-law-suspended.html (myself haven't really made any research on that sybject)

This is a call for directAction in solidarity with anyone being effected by the fascist activities conducted by the US agency ICE.

Since being here on github, we can start to use this proprietary plattform instead of sharing code, colaborating on code and being constructive about coding to use it to exclusivly share informations about microsoft supporting fascism, what it has to do with ones own use of this plattform and deconstructing fascist ideology.

Also start writing issues about this into any other software projects you empathise with and encourage people to do the same.

Thought their is potential of making a trend out of this, that could damage the trademark github and microsoft and raises more awareness about ICE within the coder scene.

Maybe someone could come up with a much better writing then this one, incl. some more research and possibilities that can be taken to resist ICE in specific or racism in general.

Psycojoker commented 6 years ago

Hello,

We are already planning to move away from github, you can find the related issues here https://github.com/YunoHost/issues/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Abe-github-independant (and like everything else in YunoHost it is bound to volunteers free time)

Regarding the political side it's hard to talk for the whole collective on a matter we haven't discussed yet (and so, not giving my personal position) but I'm not expecting us to have a lot of sympathy, to say the least, for fascism.

PaulFree14 commented 6 years ago

Thank you for this coment! Other projects I commented this to didn't gave much of a great respond.

Liking yunohost (even so your answer is not representing yunohost as a whole) now even more.

zamentur commented 2 years ago

Update: We are waiting forge federation mechanism to migrate on our own forge (or on a trustable forge). https://forgefed.io/