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Free software in education will take a step back -- republicans are going after school board positions nationwide in the US (web.archive.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by debanqued@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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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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[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

#Apnews is Tor-hostile. I do not support excluding people so I shared a link that is open to the public and inclusive.

If AP News would have also blocked archive.org (thus public libraries) then I would not have shared the link at all — out of respect for #netneutrality (access equality).