On 11/01/2021 18:59, pjotr.public445@thebird.nl wrote:
This list is for organising FOSDEM 2021. While I sympathise with some of the ideas and sentiments, I don't think it should be discussed on this mailing list. Maybe the organizers can set up a FOSDEM policy mailing list for this type of discussion, people take it there, and we stop the thread where it is now on this list?
In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about people who were enablers for Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and other undesirables. FOSDEM can't be an enabler for Google and their sock puppets any more. Google is to the CIA what Blackwater are to the police. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blackwater+pardon&t=ffab&ia=web FSFE now gets 20% of their budget from Google. This means that several booths at FOSDEM, including the FSFE booth, are part of a giant Google echo chamber. That is a massive fraud and deception upon the FOSDEM audience. This behavior is as much a risk to our community as the Solarwinds attack is a risk to US Government IT systems. Google is a zero day in broad daylight. Moving it to a side channel is covering it up. Look at the way Google kicked out Timnit Gebru before Christmas. Truly evil. Copy that move from the Google playbook: Kick Google and their sock puppets out of FOSDEM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru