Ethics & Responsibility

[ligi]

I understand might be an interesting experiment in some context. But I have huge ethical concerns. By doing this you basically support and amplify the ( IMHO already way to high ) power of trump. Do you really want this? I think this app should come with a big red warning sign - I would even be a bit more radical as greedy people might still use it despite this warning sign.

[Pablocgdev]

This is Github not Politicshub, we discuss and improve technology.

[ligi]

@Pablocgdev I am on github way longer than you - with way more contributions/repos/stars/followers - so please do not try to tell me what this platform is about!
I am really sad about this repository and the reactions - really hope some of you broaden this very dangerous and narrow tunnel-vision you have currently.

[Pablocgdev]

Oh, I forgot the number of stars, aging and contributions makes your arguments stronger.

The only vision-tunnel here is yours, trying to censor a software because you don't like the politic view behind it, I'm sure a lot of people here doesn't share Trump politics but focus on development.

Nothing to talk with you, actually your arguments are childish, biased and nothing to do with a Github repo.

[ligi]

I do not want to censor anything - but I just think it is really important to reflect on the implications of what you are working on. The humans building the gas-chambers where also only focusing on development and did not care about politics ..
And github is the place to discuss this - this is social coding - not asocial coding.

[con-f-use]

Just stumbled upon this repository and issue. I find it hilarious:

• The fact the repo exists in the first place is just pure gold.
• The no. 1 issue is called "Ethics & Responsibility"
• There are people arguing about this
• The issue is actually meant to be taken seriously. Like sane people would trust a bot that parses natural language with their savings, and that of the Orange One nonetheless. I mean even human interpreters can't make sense of his ramblings. On live TV, serious journalists do not know what he "means when he says words". Have you looked at the picture in the Readme? Still want to have an argument about the ethics of a silly joke, that won't make any difference in the world? You could be protesting the man himself or do something actually useful...
• One logical fallacy after the other:
  • "Stars make your arguments stronger" (thank you for this comment, hit the nail on the head)
  • "A little stock-trading app is like nazi gas chambers" (sure thing)
  • "Censorship is when people voice their opinions and ASK rather POLITELY to consider taking a small repo on github down, with no repercussions for non-compliance". If that's censorshit, what do you call it when governments blackmail and threaten people into not saying certain things? What does it have to do with @ligi's concerns about the morality? Also suddenly, github seems to be a public media outlet as opposed to being a private source-code host. Who knew? (@Pablocgdev had originally claimed @ligi was trying to censor this repo)
  • "If the small amount of people who know of and actually use this repo make a little bit of money, that somehow gives the most powerful man on the planet more power. Strategic master mind that he is, he will immediately convert this power into the end of days. It will be the one thing that tips the scale. He has been waiting for exactly this. In no way people be able to use their newly found vastness of wealth to do good, if they choose to."

They say good comedy is when you can just barely tell if it's a joke. Are you guys serious?

[ligi]

I really hope @Pablocgdev is joking - and also really hope the author is joking - perhaps even some nasty joke like with some undocumented feature that transfer all funds to some environment protection NGO from people that actually are so greedy to use this software.
But I cannot speak for others - I for myself am not joking ( here currently - sometimes I am - but this here now is serious )

[con-f-use]

A regular Cuban Missile Crisis.

[cseale]

Lighten up. This is hilarious. I for one will be pumping the millions I earn from this tool into my Pro-Trump charity for "People Who Support Trump and Want to Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too". I look forward to committing to this repo to help "raise the profile" of that little unknown loudmouth called THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

[moraleslevi]

I still can't tell if @ligi is joking or not. But maybe you should read the repo author's article which suggests donating any profits to charities such as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc.

Hopefully that will unrustle those jimmies.

[ligi]

Donating the profits to charities is not really helping. It is the same as selling someone a weapon to kill someone else and then giving the profit to the widow..
And even worse - teach others how to sell guns for killing and they might not even give the profits to all these widows.

[con-f-use]

Straw man, False analogy

[joeycurnutt]

This aged well

[ligi]

I for one am really happy twitter solved the problem and this guy is neither on twitter anymore nor POTUS ..
And once more disappointed in google. Seems Google's 'Don't Be Evil' was a canary seeing googlers behind repositories like this.