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Post #1677859

2026-04-22 08:33 UTC

Interesting blog post by @tante "Open source licenses do not allow you to forbid using your work in weapons. Do not allow you to limit using your work only for socially beneficial endeavors. Open source is impressive, but tries to be apolitical and therefore does not help us fight back fascism. It wants to stay neutral. But there is no neutrality when standing in a wildfire." https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Replies (6)

  • @hopland@snabelen.no 2026-04-22 08:40

    @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org not gonna do the "good guy with code" argument, because it is bunk. But let's make it absolutely clear. That same open source project can be used to build defenses, empower political organizations, protect journalists, political dissidents, etc. Setting the precedent of inserting political clauses that have nothing to do with the users autonomy, control and privacy is a really bad idea - because now you've opened Pandoras box and will be forced to use leaky pro-Isreal code.

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  • @v4rd4453n@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-22 09:27

    @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org or science is sort of open source

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  • @kommaKucken@ruhr.social 2026-04-22 09:39

    @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org great article. Thanks for sharing.

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  • @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-04-22 11:45

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org @lislegaard@sonomu.club it’s not part of the problem either, but it is part of the victims, as "AI" slop is destroying FOSS.

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  • @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org I wish everybody cited that PoS like this

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  • @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org I recently found The Hippocratic License when looking for good licensing options for a project: https://firstdonoharm.dev/ Seems to be quite nice, there's a base license and a bunch of modules to exclude military use, for example.

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