On June 26th ( two days ago ) PewDiePie ( who I believe needs no introduction ) released another video in his liberation saga. This time titled I'm DONE with Google. In this video he goes over his process of getting "de-google-efied", or as he clarifies toward the end of the video, his process of getting rid of his reliance on Big Tech.
The fact that PewDiePie might have a right-leaning following, that he acquired by himself leaning right, which he now exposes to Freedom, using Libre Software, might actually be a good thing. Since exposing yourself to the philosophy of Free Software eventually leads to human rights and thus to the left, in a way. If PewDiePie course-correcting to the left like this, taking his enormous subscriber-base with him, IMO it is very good.
I’m not saying that right means freedom but what makes you think that left means freedom?
“right leaning” is one hell of a way to describe a fucking outright neo nazi…
There’s plenty of neo-nazis in the Free Software movement. It’s “Free Software”, not “Free People”
sometimes it feels that there are more cryptofascists in the movement than other ideologies. luke smith is a prime example.
Nazis are everywhere, not just OSS. Never seen one in OSS though
i feel like you missed the time between 1990 and 2005 when american libertarians caused a schism in the free software movement by popularising open source.
You got a problem with open source? In /c/opensource?
i’ve got a problem with what ESR calls open source.
like, the fact that free software is inherently political has been explored elsewhere in the thread, but the term “open source” was started by people who wanted to distance themselves from the free software movement due to them disliking that it was anti-commercial. the open source movement wanted more companies to adopt their code, in contrast to the GNU people trying to stop their work being absorbed into the old big iron.
and they won.
Who won?
the “take our work and pay us nothing, please” crowd.
There is evidence already in that video that suggests that he is starting to lean more left. Like he pointed out the ecological issues with AI. Even though he did say “I don’t like to be that guy” before saying that.
It seems like he is already doing some doubts and thinking that are signs of moving the left direction.
I’m trying to be the optimist here. If we want not just PewDiePie, but his subscribe-base to change sides, we need him to be extra careful and extra soft with this sort of change. He seem to know how to form good streams of thoughts and convincing narratives. This would take some serious carefulness on his part. And it seems like he is already taking small steps to do that.
I’m sorry no. He is not leaning more left he’s just an opportunistic crypto fascist.
I see him more as your typical edgelord who did enable a lot of shitty fascists, idk if he is an ideological fascist though.
He said the N word on stream, in a “heated gamer moment”. I have never ever said that word in private or otherwise, leading me to believe that is not his first time or last.
He paid poor people in India on fiver to hold a sign saying “kill the jews”
In his apology video he wore a shirt with a fucking iron cross on the collar.
He is a Nazi and to continue to hem and haw about whether he is or isn’t is exactly what crypto fascist losers like him want you to do.
PewDiePie is a Nazi. Stop carrying water for Nazis.
Ok well in Europe people say and used to say the n word a lot, idk where you are from but when I moved here 17 years ago white kids saying the n word was „normal“ I was pretty shocked because I came from US schools where that was a huge no no. So I’m just saying hearing a white person saying the N word in Europe wasn’t a sign that people were dyed in the wool racists. As for the iron cross thing, that’s an older Prussian military symbol which is still used by the German military (yes it’s full of right wingers but which military isn’t) also Lemmy used to run around wearing iron crosses didn’t mean he was a nazi.
All the rest sounds just like an idiot trolling, I don’t know the guy and I’m not defending what he did, he definitely helped poison the discourse and gave Nazis a place where they could feel safe which is bad. I still don’t know if he’s an ideological fascist though so I’m not going to call him one. I’m not carrying water for any one at the end of the day idgaf about any of these internet personalities. I’m just also not going to accuse some one of being a nazi if I don’t know that he is one.
At the end of the day I think he just did all this shit for the controversy it stirred up because guess what in the media hellscape we live in stirring up controversy makes good money, a lot more than being sincere sadly.