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One of my earliest memories when I was a young nerd in Beirut getting into open source development was worrying that some nefarious local actor would you use my free software to their benefit. I didn't want that to happen, and I asked online how to prevent it from happening. @Carnage4Life/1175039600558919680Permalink On twitter.com
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I was kind of dismissed, told that I couldn't and more importantly shouldn't restrict the usage of my work in that way, that in the "marketplace of ideas" the best ones would rise to the top and that I shouldn't worry.Permalink On twitter.com
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I was, of course, not just thinking of people that I disagreed with politically but actual violent armed militant groups with ethnic cleansing goals. The advice that I was getting was from a white western context that had no vocabulary for what I was dealing with.Permalink On twitter.com
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At the time I internalized it, and I tried to become comfortable with the notion that anyone could and should use my software. Looking back I understand that as a limitation of the politics and imagination of the free software movement.Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm not saying there's an easy obvious answer that they missed, just there is no mechanism to even think about questions like "how do I keep my code from contributing to atrocities?" This is long overdue.Permalink On twitter.com
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At the end of the day, no local militia ended up using my PHP implementation of the JQuery API, so no harm no foul. Now that this shit is more real in America, I'm glad people are thinking about it, but this isn't news if you grew up outside the privilege of the first world.On twitter.com
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