I'm not surprised. https://www.cultstate.com/2020/05/24/Podcast-18--Blackmail-Inflation/
I understand your frustration, but if they keep doing it, then the dirty laundry will continue to be aired. The evidence isn't for the court or the media, they won't ever look at it, it is for everyone else who bothers to look.
They're a private corporation, they can do whatever they please with their platform, including enforce government policies. The first amendment doesn't apply to them because they're not government.
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I look forwards to private security and law enforcement as government contractors using the same argument.
"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said the suit was dismissed because the plaintiffs failed to file their case in a “timely manner” when Act 77 was passed in 2019."
You should file it before all the shenanigans took place, and prove it too, before it happens.
Stallman bit the MSM bug awhile ago and went Orange Man Bad, I haven't kept up with him since. He got thrown under the bus for being a creeper and a making creeper posts, so its pretty much a political charge. Remember, liberals get the bullet too.
I fully expect him to regret inventing GPL allow "bad people" to do "bad things" any day now. It is likely a move to discourage developers from using GPL over BSD license.
An important distinction in GPL is that there is no difference between developer and end users, both must be given the same freedoms. In practice it means if I as an end user legally obtained a copy of your software, binary or not, I have the right to demand the source code too. It has to be in machine readable form, so no boxes of print outs, says so in the license. In turn, any software derivative I made based on the source code I obtained must also be made available to whoever obtained a copy of my software legally.
The last what drives BSD license people mad, they can't lock it down and see it as an impediment on their developer freedom. Lolbertarians butthurt. The switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3 (through the GPLv2 or later clause) caused so much butthurt, Apple gradually started removing all GPL licensed software from the OS. The Linux kernel itself is GPLv2 and will always be.
Lastly the GPL is only effect when making transmissible copies. If I made modifications to a GPL software for myself but never made a copy for anyone else, I can do whatever I want with it, since there are no copies made to anyone else.