Comment on The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

• SkyNTP@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think you missed the part where the person you are replying to is talking about the ethics of the platform itself, not the ethical viewpoint of the users using the platform nor the personal views of the developers.

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Platforms don’t have ethics. They’re software, not people.

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Platforms have the ethics of the people administrating them

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And designing them. Anything coded has the biases of the people who made them baked in.

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    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Software is shipped with a license. There are licenses that are more or less ethical.

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• Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do I have bad news about twitter… At least no one profits from it here

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• zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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