Yesterday I saw several posts linking to the BBC article about Palestinians living abroad whose entire Microsoft accounts had been deleted because they'd used Skype to call family in Gaza.
Under each of these posts were several replies along the lines of "well they should have used FOSS" and I swear I just don't understand what goes through people's heads when they post stuff like this.
It's such a ghastly example of victim-blaming and an utter failure of empathy, that I barely know where to begin. I also struggle to see where the possible motivation can be. Like, this isn't going to win people over to the cause of foss -- quite the opposite. I've run a Linux desktop for years, and I sometimes wonder whether I should just give up because the milieu is so toxic.
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