Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to a project run by an anonymous dev — who turned out to be a follower of a fascist 'guru' (www.businessinsider.com)

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"We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian," Dorsey said.

That anonymous Brazilian is Giovanni Torres Parra, a developer who has also built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil's military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was "incompatible" with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Jack is the “end the CCP” guy. He was probably a fan.

[+] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Any time censorship resistance is given as one of the design principles for a piece of social networking software, you know that it was made by fash. freeze-peach

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I understand the gist of what you’re saying. There have been a lot of failed social media startups that claim to be censorship resistant. They also tend to have some vague scheme to pay people for the content they post. But there’s plenty of censorship resistant software written and maintained by non-fascists. Federation is a form of censorship resistance and Lemmy is maintained by communists. And Matrix/Element is maintained by people who are at the very least intending it to be used by activists and political dissidents beyond just fascist cells. I know KF had a matrix instance, but so do we and so does lemmygrad. It’s just good software.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

The main difference is that right-wing libertarians perceive censorship as a technological problem while leftists understand it as a social problem. Fediverse software is generally agnostic about censorship. It is a matter of policy left to instance operators. Right-wing libertarians on the other hand will produce the same corporate social structures over and over again and think an algorithm will fix the problem.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19

My only conclusion is that reactionary Brazilians love diseases

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Only slightly more than they love being attacked by large flightless birds

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