Most disappointing about Vlad's response on behalf of #Kagi#Brave is not seeing the clash with their pretend-mission of "humanizing the web".
You can't do that while pretending ethics aren't part of it. Or by defending your business relationship with someone who denies basic human rights to some.
Amorality in tech is not a "principled position", much less the only one. And looking at the people who come out in support for your position should tell you something.
@larsmb aye, after thinking about this for a really long time my current conclusion re capitalism is that the main, maybe only real problem is that it's amoral and you can't run a sustainable society on just that
@dngrs If their response had just been "Yes, this wasn't an easy choice, but there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, we weighed the cost benefit to our users vs using another publicly traded company and aren't happy no perfect solution exists either, we'll keep monitoring and revisit, maybe add an optout function for subscribers" the actual result would have been similar.
Except now they're part of the "tech must be amoral" and cheered by the "homophobia is a valid opinion" crowd 😐
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