• Deebster@infosec.pub
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    8 days ago

    I’m assuming that’s been there for a while since this was topical six months ago.

    Anyway, while I am no fan of Musk or the site formerly known as Twitter, I think this is a bad thing. The author’s political views have been prioritised over users’ abilities to use the site; even if someone wanted to monitor X users in a way lib.rs approved of they couldn’t get help from the site to do this.

    I think lib.rs has pulled stunts like this before, which is why crates.rs is usually recommended instead.

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      4 days ago

      Fighting Nazis, exposing Nazis, calling Nazis Nazis, etc are not political views. The are the only correct and sane thing to do for anyone.

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      8 days ago

      lib.rs has always been more opinionated, because it isn’t an official project. I imagine, those who look for opinionated will have no problem with this. It certainly made me like the site more.

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      Everything on the internet is shaped by political views. I don’t understand this take at all. All of the internet projects started as defense projects run by people that believed information should be shared and were taken over to become surveillance institutions. The notion that someone should run a free website indexing all rust crates is itself greatly informed by the politics surrounding FOSS and open information. How you respond to the paradox of tolerance is deeply political. We just happen to fall of different sides of the issue so I have no qualms calling it out.

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      9 days ago

      Yeah also calling anything where you raise your hand a “Nazi-like salute” is dumb af. Musk does enough real shit without having clutch at straws like this.

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        8 days ago

        Oh of course that was just raising the hand. Sure bud. The timing and context also was perfectly suited to do “raise your hand” like you’ve waited your whole life for it, isn’t it?

        Or that he’s been running a far-right social media platform on the internet. Or that he was supporting a president who ran on pale supremacy rhetoric. Or he was some rich guy that benefitted from apartheid south africa.

        Nah, those are just coincidences. Just raising a hand, nothing more.

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        8 days ago

        The title points out the problem. It DOESN’T MATTER what he intended; we already know his views. What matters is the message it sent to far-right supporters across the globe. He never made an attempt to address that.