Content aside, is there anything or anyone forcing Foss projects to pick up this voice?

I understand that TOR is big and professional and all, but why does this read like a press statement of every tech corp under the sun? Do we have to talk like this?

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githubnuoo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

if you don't, some will say "you are not treating this seriously, it's not a joke, humans life's are at stake and you can't even bother writing a professional response"

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carlosjobim an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> some will say

And whatever you do to please these "some", they will never be satisfied and just jump on to the next hate bandwagon the moment you give in to their demands. You never benefit from listening to these online activists, who already hate you and already don't use your product. Even more so when it's a non-profit product.

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hypfer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, but, does that someone matter? Do they still have leverage to be of any concern?

Because.. looking at the whole.. uh.. stuff going on in US politics, I'm kinda doubtful. There are a lot of real and big problems going on right now that far outweigh choice of specific tone and words I'd say.

I mean. Their choice and all, but it comes with the trade-off of being massively alienating, and I'd argue that the cost benefit calculation of that might have to be redone, taking the current state of the world into account.

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Toynbeeidea 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If that "somebody" is some manner of congresscritter, then yes.

	▲	hypfer 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but that government body is currently doing this sanctioning the ICC thing and also thinking about public execution livestreams, so.. uh. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021066 So.. idk? I think they might not care that much? In fact, they might like the people the Tor project is (rightfully (if done genuinely)) (pretending to) distance themselves from.

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githubnuoo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the existence of this blog post is proof that it matters for them, people/orgs receive emails accusing them every day, and most of the time they dont bother answering

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