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# Take Responsibility For The Use Of Your Code
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This is hard. Very very hard. It's the difference between "freedom" and
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"responsibility".
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There is nothing wrong in writing, for example, a software to capture people's
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faces and detect their ethnicity, but you have to think about what that will
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be used on.
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Even on an open source project, you can take responsibility without blocking
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people. You can make your project harder for people trying to abuse to use it,
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to the point they will have to take control of their own fork.
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One example is a small application called [Tusky](https://tusky.app/), which
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is "An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon", completely open
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source. Mastodon is a network of microblogging servers with connect to each
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other, kinda like Twitter, but you can pick a different server that is not
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twitter.com and still get updates from that server. One of the servers that
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appeared in the server list is an alt-right server which, as most alt-right
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forums, promote a lot of hate. What Tusky did? When you try to add an account
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on that server, instead of adding the account, [they play a video of Never
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Gonna Give You Up](https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/1303), basically
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[rickrolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling) anyone who, well, is
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an alt-righter.
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Tusky broke the open source license? No, the code is still available. Anyone
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wanting to use the server can pick the code, fork it, remove the rickroll and
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release their own version of the application. But Tusky developers took an
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instead of saying "We'll not take part in promoting hate speech" and one can't
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deny that they did.
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It is a bit hard to do so on the company code -- you would get some reprimands
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if you try to shame or block one of the company clients from using the company
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application -- but you [can say no](./say-no.md) and,
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depending on how offensive you think the use the code is, you can even start
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looking for a new place to work. People on larger and "cooler" companies, like
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Google, left their jobs because they didn't agree with what the company was
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doing, and so can you.
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