yes, it does video or voice chat.
idk what their agreement is with them, but i’d venture to guess that they’re not not complicit.
yeah i can understand that viewpoint, and for all the matrix users i hope that remains true. maybe i'm just jaded, but i've been around long enough to know that just because a company isn't a complete pile of shit now doesn't mean they won't be in the future—ESPECIALLY when you can see the company they keep (and defend).
sure, it’s nuanced, but imho there’s a difference between actively helping and propping up vs providing free software. when you have active contracts with entities that discriminate, it becomes a different ethical stance than simply building FOSS.
there’s a subtle difference, but if i’m following your logic, then weapons manufacturers have no moral/ethical responsibility for enabling war to happen? if you made a knife—harmless on its own, and then gave the knife to a murderer who then killed someone with it, are you not enabling?
matrix is part of the police state. https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309
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