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p91paulon Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC

I don't think the user can be held liable under the GPL. The GPL says:

> This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program

> You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force

So the GPL restrictions apply only on redistribution to others. You can do whatever you want on your systems.

p91paulon EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

However, in the case of Meta, if you are a Facebook user they are likely using your likes, friends, any personal information you give them, the content of your posts/comments/private messages to better target your ads. So you, in fact, agree with this ban.

p91paulon Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

In your society girls go around in underwear? nice!

Sorry, I really had to :)

p91paulon I have written a JVM in Rust

I happen to personally know the author, and I'm not really surprised he pulled this off. Using him as a baseline of who is a real developer his extremely unhealthy. Please don't :)