Relevant: here’s European Digital Rights (@edri@eupolicy.social) live-commenting on their hearing.

And here are their key takeaways.

Overall, this hearing did NOT deliver the democratic scrutiny we were hoping for - our takeout had more spice 🌶️🌶️🌶

It’ll be at the hands of whatever jurisdiction the forker is in. It’s not like you can escape governments.

No, I’m telling people not to suspect anything, because we don’t know anything.

This is all hypothetical

Yes, that is exactly my point: let’s not get all worked up about something where we have almost zero facts. Although:

open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices

is definitely the case for the Linux Foundation: it’s beholden to US laws. And wake-up call or not, a foundation would always be incorporated somewhere, and beholden to the laws of that somewhere.

Oh geez, this the third reply by the same account… Again, I’m just saying that we don’t know whether the contributors were assumed guilty, or if they have actual ties to sanctioned companies.

I am literally saying the opposite: I am saying that it’s not clear that this applies to all Russians, or just ones that are sanctioned.

No, I’m saying that if the banned people are only banned because they’re associated with the Russian government (/employed by sanctioned companies), then I’m not going to get outraged over the kernel maintainers. I do not expect them to break the law just to die on this hill.

I would get it if he would have simply stated that the Linux Foundation needs to abide by the sanctions

I mean, that’s basically what he said:

If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day.

Doesn’t sound like they banned Russians in general, just people employed by sanctioned companies.

Honestly I wish that was a principle that the internet embraced more. We’re so trigger-happy to be outraged.

I don’t see what this has to do with my comment. I see no indication that all Russians are blanket-banned.

…and we don’t know whether they’re the former or the latter, no? So maybe a little early to get outraged?

Not by themselves, but they’re generally indicative of a wider movement, i.e. for every person who came out to demonstrate, there are a few that agree, but not enough to actually go out there. And as the sibling comment mentions, moving closer to the EU also has wide support with a large part of the population according to polls. Is it just something that people disagree on with Georgian Dream, but not enough to not vote for them?

What I don’t get is how so many Georgians have turned up repeatedly to protest the moves away from the EU by the government, and yet Georgian Dream still get voted on by so many. Any Georgians around who can provide some context? Yet another instance of rural vs. urban populace?

Well, check out Solid and let me know if you have questions, I have worked with it (and Turtle).

Not out of thin air, but you don’t technically need much more than two people. There’s a lot of help you can get that’s useful, but you can get that abroad.

Sure, but this ban won’t improve on that either.

It plays a big role in https://solidproject.org.

That said, there is no way it is feasible to represent the meaning of arbitrary English text in Turtle (or any other RDF serialisation format). There’s a reason the “Semantic Web” concept never really caught on.

In the Netherlands you’re just not allowed to get paid for it, that seems like it would solve that part.

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