@switchingsocial@mastodon.at
Nothing wrong with ideals and morals, I have plenty.
But whenever humans try to enforce justice/utopia, they inevitably create injustice/dystopia.
The best human judges fail.
Be the good you want to see in others, but don't force opinions on others.
That's the main problem of all ideologies, no matter how left or right they are: Wanting everybody so submit to it, because else they must be wrong.
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@switchingsocial@mastodon.at On top of user-freedom-respecting, my neutral was meant in the NPOV sense wikipdia has in theory.
Adding a critique section to entries would allow people to make more informed choices.
One key problem of Google/bigtech is that they are gatekeepers. You are too.
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@switchingsocial@mastodon.at
People might share your exact ideals and yet come to different conclusions about the concerns you have. And of course there are things you just don't consider. Likely, somebody at Nextcloud made a donation you disagree with.
Or just today I learned that digitalcourage runs their own instance of framadate, because of a problematic French law that could put people at risk.
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@switchingsocial@mastodon.at
Knowing what I know, I can imagine that talking IRL to some of the persons at Brave or Purism could change your mind, without changing your ideals.
Ironically, you might be embarassed to learn that people you think to protect work at companies you think should be avoided for the same reason.
Nobody has the full picture and that's why humility rocks.
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