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   Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:58:55 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

   • Karen Sandler
   Bradley and @karen published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:
   
   "Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.
   
   https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/
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     Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ (blort@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 01:44:09 JST Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

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     • Karen Sandler

     @conservancy
     Replace "ByteDance" from the quotation above with "all social media companies" and you have my support.

     This whole thing strikes me as a ridiculous case of "Their surveillance BAD! Our surveillance GOOD!"
     @karen

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 22:27:19 JST 翠星石

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     • Karen Sandler
     @conservancy @karen Under a gratis, source-available license you say? (that is what most people assume "FOSS" means).
     
     People would of course correctly understand; "Release all relevant software in source form under a free software license (note that free means freedom, not gratis)", but of course not.
     
     Even having cr...app and server source code wouldn't help, as the biggest issue is how it's SaaSS; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html