> We (consumers) want to hold vendors accountable for policing "hate speech", kiddie porn, or terrorism, and various other centralized exercises of power that align with personal political whims.
Autres temps, autres moeurs. We live in a culture today where if you are not active in the fight against X, then you condone X, ipso facto. Back in the day, companies could legitimately claim that they were in the business of delivering a product, and others had the responsibility of policing against social ills. In today's era of corporate responsibility and ESG, that is no longer the case. Open source will be affected too, as open source cannot be sustained in a vacuum; it needs institutions, foundations, and corporate backers, all of which will be pressured to comply with "ethical source" guidelines.
Autres temps, autres moeurs. We live in a culture today where if you are not active in the fight against X, then you condone X, ipso facto. Back in the day, companies could legitimately claim that they were in the business of delivering a product, and others had the responsibility of policing against social ills. In today's era of corporate responsibility and ESG, that is no longer the case. Open source will be affected too, as open source cannot be sustained in a vacuum; it needs institutions, foundations, and corporate backers, all of which will be pressured to comply with "ethical source" guidelines.