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1. Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 14:46:08 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

   Just a warning, I am immediately blocking, and sometimes server blocking on, "stop posting about politics if you're a insert profession here" takes. Technology is politics. Education is politics. Security is politics. The people who work in these fields, and more, are intimately impacted by politics. Some peoples' lives, families, and livelihoods are in danger. It's all politics, stop content and tone policing if you're one of the few people who's currently insanely fortunate to be relatively unimpacted. It's asinine.

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • PJ Coffey (homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 18:46:55 JST PJ Coffey

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     • Aral Balkan

     @hacks4pancakes

     "Stop posting about politics" == "I'm in favour of the status quo and the direction of movement."

     It's not just asinine it's enabling fascists by silencing their opponents. C.f. the response to @aral proposing the merest figleaf of "Don't use this software for unethical purposes" in licences.

     If you don’t like a regular political take... don't listen. And if someone is working against fascism boost their views. Don't try and silence them!