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1. ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2018 05:13:18 EST ar.al🌻

   I want to make one thing very clear regarding #fosdem2018 #fosdem

   A conference on freedom-and-human-rights-respecting technology should not have a titan of #SurveillanceCapitalism like Google as sponsor. The good people in our community shouldn’t have to choose between having a platform to meet up at and having their legitimacy usurped by association to whitewash such companies. I’m attending under protest to meet and chat to some lovely members of the community.

   Google doesn’t belong there.

   1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2018 05:20:21 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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      @aral Yes. I don't remember if they were sponsors in previous years. They might have been. In the more distant past, pre-Snowden, Google was considered more favorably. But now they're just a giant spyware company which has long since abandoned support for open standards.
      1. ☠️ Grumpy Oldman (grmpyoldman@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 03:48:19 EST ☠️ Grumpy Oldman

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         @bob @aral since 2007 https://archive.fosdem.org/2007/
   2. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 03:38:59 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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      I guess you'd think Apple would be an ok sponsor?