“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
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“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militaries, etc., do not have a right to privacy. What they should have is an obligation to transparency.
That’s the crucial distinction.
Privacy is the fundamental right that underpins our ability to exercise all our other human rights to *protect ourselves* from abuse by corporations, governments, police departments, and militaires.
Corporate open source wants you to believe that the enterprise software they create for their corporate, government, law enforcement, and military clients will somehow trickle down into being tools that also protect the rights of individuals. And we all know how well trickle down theories work.
If an organisation is building tools to protect privacy, and they are not designing them with the exclusive goal of protecting the privacy of people, then they’re not working for you. They’re working for the entities that seek to oppress you.
To them I say: don’t piss in our faces and tell us it’s raining. If you’re an “open source” enterprise software company that peddles its wares to corporations, governments, law enforcement, and the military, then that’s what you are and it is what it is. But don’t you dare feign concern about human rights or human freedom.
The “F” is FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
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“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militaries, etc., do not have a right to privacy. What they should have is an obligation to transparency.
That’s the crucial distinction.
Privacy is the fundamental right that underpins our ability to exercise all our other human rights to *protect ourselves* from abuse by corporations, governments, police departments, and militaires.
Corporate open source wants you to believe that the enterprise software they create for their corporate, government, law enforcement, and military clients will somehow trickle down into being tools that also protect the rights of individuals. And we all know how well trickle down theories work.
If an organisation is building tools to protect privacy, and they are not designing them with the exclusive goal of protecting the privacy of people, then they’re not working for you. They’re working for the entities that seek to oppress you.
To them I say: don’t piss in our faces and tell us it’s raining. If you’re an “open source” enterprise software company that peddles its wares to corporations, governments, law enforcement, and the military, then that’s what you are and it is what it is. But don’t you dare feign concern about human rights or human freedom.
The “F” is FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@aral The public sector is called "public" because it shouldn't have secrets.
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“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militaries, etc., do not have a right to privacy. What they should have is an obligation to transparency.
That’s the crucial distinction.
Privacy is the fundamental right that underpins our ability to exercise all our other human rights to *protect ourselves* from abuse by corporations, governments, police departments, and militaires.
Corporate open source wants you to believe that the enterprise software they create for their corporate, government, law enforcement, and military clients will somehow trickle down into being tools that also protect the rights of individuals. And we all know how well trickle down theories work.
If an organisation is building tools to protect privacy, and they are not designing them with the exclusive goal of protecting the privacy of people, then they’re not working for you. They’re working for the entities that seek to oppress you.
To them I say: don’t piss in our faces and tell us it’s raining. If you’re an “open source” enterprise software company that peddles its wares to corporations, governments, law enforcement, and the military, then that’s what you are and it is what it is. But don’t you dare feign concern about human rights or human freedom.
The “F” is FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@aral Wish I could boost this more than once, Aral. Well put.
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