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THE NO POLITICAL DISAGREEMENTS GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2020 Hawkeye Tenderwolf

Preamble

Most software licenses are designed to take your freedoms away. By contrast, the NO POLITICAL DISAGREEMENTS GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (NPDGPL) is designed to take away freedoms only from people I, Hawkeye Tenderwolf, disagree with.

TERMS

1. Anyone may use this software, for any purpose, except purposes which I, Hawkeye Tenderwolf, personally disagree with.

2. Anyone may use this software, except people who hold political beliefs or DID hold political beliefs in the past, which I, Hawkeye Tenderwolf, presently disagree with.

3. Prior to using this software, you are required to determine whether you have or have ever held political disagreements with me, Hawkeye Tenderwolf. Use of the software prior to such determination is illicit and may result in legal action.

4. If you'd like to know if you have political disagreements with I, Hawkeye Tenderwolf, you may send an email to Hawkeye Tenderwolf <hawkeye@tenderwolf.net> and ask. Don't be shy, I don't bite!

5. This software comes with NO WARRANTY and failure to follow these terms may result in death by political genocide.

@mathlover O.O another ML! I do love math as well, though that's not what ML stands for in my case (it's just my initials)

PC language can be a real issue at work when working internationally.

Engineers are using language which was entirely normal a few decades ago, but they can struggle with those modern nuances, and it always feels a little shitty to correct someone who's already acheived learning a second language when I can only speak English.

Like, 'surprise, mofo - we changed which words were allowed'.

@mathlover
Yes! It's called a progressive web app, and will be big when it's accepted by Apple.

I've been feeling antsy all day, but now I took out a piece of paper and started doodling and it's helping

“This threatens to change the web from a hyperlinked collection of resources (that can be audited, selectively fetched, or even replaced), to opaque all-or-nothing ‘blobs’ (like PDFs or SWFs),”
https://archive.is/5VNe1

Yea this is such a horrible slippery slope if we go down this path, forcing app developers to be moderators of all systems in the wild their app may be capable of connecting to simply because it speaks the right protocol.

This is dangerous.

@mathlover @chris @Demosthenes @Gargron

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

Mastodon is 20x more addictive than Twitter for me. How do you all handle it???

@freemo
If you are getting traction and are politically savvy, you might reach out to American politicians and discuss the anti-competitive angle of it. They're under a lot of political pressure right now
@chris

Apparently my post has been directly linked from Engadget now too. Coooool

https://www.engadget.com/google-pulls-fediverse-android-apps-160433088.html

#fediverse #mastoadmin

@ivesen

They started covering the bigger cities in Germany, but there are fairly strict privacy laws there and too many people started complaining.

Google had to manually censor individual buildings and eventually gave up entirely. The few cities covered in Germany still show image data from 2008.

Keep getting loud. Public pressure works. There are people protesting to the Postmater General right now.

Call your Congressperson. Call your 2 Senators. Congressional Switchboard: 202- 224-3121. Tell them to fund the Post Office. The Postal Service is not a tool of any political party and it must not be treated as such.
#ProtectOurVotes

The Postal Service will stop removing mailboxes. The agency said it would stop removing the boxes nationally until after the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/14/people-are-freaking-out-about-mailbox-removals-postal-service-says-its-routine/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_uspsstates-230pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Your voice matters. Your choices matter. Sharing your feelings, on privacy, in a compassionate way will help turn the tide to create a better internet.

A perfect internet? Never.

That should not be our goal. Perfection is subjective and the enemy of success.

A better internet? Absolutely!

Let your network know that you've decided to switch to services that do not invade your privacy. Do so without making them feel dumb or that it's a nonsensical conspiracy.

#together #web #infosec #privacy