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Comment by dirasieb | Hacker News Reader

do please share your "ethical" software stack that doesn't include contributions from "unethical" sources involved in spying, wars, human rights violations, etc

what sort of device did you type this comment from?

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I was waiting for this comment. So because the whole industry is corrupt, two wrongs make a right and we should champion the NSA and both use and discuss their software as if it’s totally normal and they’re just a fine organization. Have I got that right?

so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it

I don’t also pretend that it’s ok to use software from shit organizations that are a cancer on our civilization, no. Even if I did, two wrongs don’t make a right, and nothing I personally say or do or not, does anything to absolve the NSA.

However you slice it you have no argument here. Being held hostage by corporate interests in computing doesn’t make it okay to hold hands with one of the worst organizations on Earth.

By your twisted logic, because it’s practically impossible to avoid proprietary firmware owned by corporations, we should completely acquiesce to all forms of digital abuse by the government and actually should participate in their computing programs. Listen to yourself.

You’d be telling people who lived under an evil dictatorship to shut up because they walk the roads the govt provides.

you're the one trying to shame people about using software you don't like by setting an impossible standard, how can you get upset when someone does it back to you and points out you don't fit it either? could you be any denser?

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