• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    People are complicated. We can say he did good things for kids while also doing bad things like defending Masterson. We can admit it must be hard for him to condemn his friend while also still saying he still needed to.

    People can do both good and bad things, we can say the good things he did are good while also saying he shouldn’t have done bad things.

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      1 year ago

      He could have not written a letter of support or condemnation. Sometimes no comment is the right way.

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      1 year ago

      I mean I feel one thing overweights the other… Like it was a fucking piece of paper…yeah he shouldn’t have done it. But I feel like whatever the org did matter more that a stupid written paper.

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          Exactly this. There was some good coverage in the German podcast Logbuch Netzpolitik. Ashton is also involved in companies selling software to “solve” the CSAM issue with methods the scientific community says will not solve it and most likely will make everything worse, not only in the topic but also others like privacy overall.