Since last year, republicans have launched a campaign to get conservatives on school boards. This is the political party in the US who favors privatization of everything. They are sympathetic to giant corporations and champion #citizensUnited (which elevates corporations above humans). #Ohio has a large number of extremists intending to take school board positions.

I don’t get the impression #FOSS orgs like #FSF are paying attention. The FOSS movement stands to lose some ground here. #FreeSoftware in education is important and FSF does not even have a campaign for it on their website.

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    This article is ancient. We have more recent elections to go off of.

    And according to basically everything I can find, “Moms For Liberty” and related groups suffered major losses basically everywhere the last cycle.

    I’m not at all suggesting to not worry, after all, it’s worry that got us to ensure they didn’t win. But I am suggesting that your information is very out of date and that you should do a better job of finding recent points to support your claim.

    Also, I think this is off topic for this community and seems far more like political bait as some have pointed out.

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      It’s too bad you can’t downvote posts on this community. It’s almost as though it would be valuable to reduce the visibility of bait posts with eye-catching headlines

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    any evidence at all to even remotely suggest this will lead to an anti foss sentiment? or is this just yet more shoving political bait into foss?

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      I can anecdotally say that the more right-leaning people I know are the most anti-FOSS but I’m not sure that applies generally.

      Even that comes with a caveat: the people I know disagree with it philosophically, i.e. they can’t see how it can work for the maintainer and won’t donate, yet are as happy as anyone to use something for free.

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        I disagree that American-right leaning people are anti foss. rather FOSS is great because it has zero political inclinations. Rather, as some who interacts with all sorts of people across the political spectrum, in fact most of my friends who are American-Right leaning or republicans, are the ones pushing hard for foss software, my American-left leaning friends are more generally neutral.

        Rather, I think that in general, the more politically inclined someone is, regardless of political stance, the easier it is to convince them to be pro foss.

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    Thats a stretch. You have any ya know sources on that or just pulling it out of your ass.