On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 13:08, Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote:

> Since we as a project have left Twitter/X (as recently announced by our
> Publicity Team) on the basis of "We do not want to be present in a place
> where we cannot ensure that users will be respected and where abuse
> happens without consequences" [0] [1], I would like start a discussion
> about how we as a project can promptly sever ties with Google.
>
>
Full disclosure: I am currently employed by Google, and do not speak for
the company.

DFSG #6 discusses not discriminating against fields of endeavour.

I can see the project wishing to cut ties with a social media platform that
is unable to ensure a minimum level of civil discourse. I'm not seeing how
this is even remotely equivalent to disengaging from a corporate sponsor
because of their commercial practices?

regards

Andrew

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