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Australian here. It's hard to say how anyone feels because the media and major social media have been astro turfed so hard. But it's plain to see to everyone that neither side of politics down under is interested in changing the status quo.
I get the sense people are disillusioned and seeing through all the smoke and mirrors from all sides of politics, but it's just leading to cynicism and disengagement rather than alternative options.
I have been wondering if maybe the path to a Star Trek future lies in peacefully tolerating and co-operating with these "authorities" as they fade into irrelevance. We can build new systems of governance peacefully, slowly and meaningfully.
Unfortunately they won't grow into irrelevance unless the population (greater than 50%) is self sufficient. If you want me to go into further detail let me know
Government might have a stranglehold on physical infrastructure and gate keep our human needs like food and shelter, but in their hubris and obsession with wealth extraction they forgot that all of us have knowledge, skills and capacity that they do not. This is the spirit that worker and union movements were based on in the late 20th century and I believe we are headed for something similar in tech and perhaps other expertise led jobs like law, medicine and science.
Corporations are getting increasingly incompetent, it's easy to foresee down the line large corporations having to broker deals with the equivalent of guilds and to apply for licensing in order to use technology, i.e. if you are a sociopath you don't get to use social media automation technology. Kinda like the principle that people on drugs aren't allowed to operate heavy machinery. Perhaps the open source community will even ban large tech from using open source unless certain conditions are met, beyond just "don't slam our servers" but into making sure there's a match on values and legal compliances.
Happy to hear your thoughts on the matter. I've been mulling how to fight back for a while and this is what I've come up with. I highly doubt it will "get done" in my lifetime, but I also believe any real meaningful change does take an eternity and I'm happy to be one of the many metaphorical birds striking the diamond mountain of capitalism.
I don't believe open source creators will stop big tech from using them because they are open source and it's antithetical to its creation.
I certainly don't expect them to ban sociopaths lol. They would have to know they are sociopaths and give them psychological evaluations. Which they don't do on even the general public.
My take is that instead of making rules for these evil corporations and nefarious governments. They must be purged of all evil and nefarious intention. People must stop worshiping the "Devil" and tolerating "Devil worshipers"
The religion doesn't matter per say, it's just the idea that corruption of human nature and abuse of power is malevolent
Use of knowledge and wisdom for assistance and improving society is benevolent.
There is already a precedence for this - Russians have been blocked by the open source community from contributing to multiple projects including the Linux kernel, Github and numerous smaller projects that actively also campaign for Ukraine.
Open source isn't just about giving code away so everyone can use it no matter what, it's a set of values and principles. If open source is used for genocide, generating CSAM, surveillance tech, etc... Then limits need to be enforced by the creators.
How will you.. achieve this exactly? Surely the better path to the future is to achieve consensus through a mutually agreed set of rules. You can't change what people really are inside, and if you try to you're just gonna create bigger problems. My 2c.
You're right can't change peoples minds. You can just raise them to be better minded people. I just don't see how blocking open source will fix anything. You could just pirate the software. Or even better they will need to create their own and they will become professional at it. Tons of these companies have to sanction Russia from pressure from the west thats the only reason they are doing it. They (businesses) are currently in mass trying to reenter the Russian market.
Ukraine kidnaps thousands of men to fight the war and video evidence is simple to find. They support nazis and are in some cases. They are terrorist they keep attempting to blow nuclear power plants. They are basically evil. I'm not going to give you a whole history lesson you can research. But just understand when Hitler was in power he was popular. After the war its understood that he was evil
Let's just leave it here. I don't think we're going to find common ground.