I want to make one thing very clear regarding #fosdem2018 #fosdem
A conference on freedom-and-human-rights-respecting technology should not have a titan of #SurveillanceCapitalism like Google as sponsor. The good people in our community shouldn’t have to choose between having a platform to meet up at and having their legitimacy usurped by association to whitewash such companies. I’m attending under protest to meet and chat to some lovely members of the community.
Google doesn’t belong there.
@aral i totally agree with u but i just want to point out i think whitewash is when you represent people of colour as white, for example JESUS, or having Scarjo play a Japanese woman. The one with Exxon and greenpeace would be "greenwash", but i don't know the label for when google sponsors this, other than coopting ethical tech spaces.