> The big social media sites such as facebook, google+ give you as a > user, little or no control over your information. This is the opposite > of the aims in the principles behind FLOSS. So to run a group, > whatever, which has aims to support FLOSS or related ethical actions, > using a facility which abuses your core ethical principles, or abuses > your group's principles - for example, to run a group supporting > FLOSS, say, on facebook, is not sensible in that respect. > > People will happily sacrifice their freedom for some compelling reason > - a honey trap. they become locked in or enslaved. Test this by trying > to leave the facility? > > A bit of research into why 'freedoms' are important can reveal > shocking stuff. Not least because once freedom is lost it is very > difficult indeed to get it back. It does not only apply to software. > -- > alan cocks > FSF #9005 > >
I have to completely agree with Alan Cocks. Sadly when I learnt about this i was completely set in the trap: facebook and skype for example. And i got friends and family into it as well. It is difficult to convince them back. I am having play around with diaspora* and trisquel.
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