770
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy isn't one entity. It's several different websites. That would be like calling Linux unethical because some people use it for weapons research.... it's open source, so people can do whatever they want with it. Douglas Crockford famously added ""The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" to the license for JSON, but it was determined by various people to be unenforceable and not compatible with free software licensing.

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
770 points (87.6% liked)

Technology

60123 readers
2671 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS