GIMP doesn’t do this.
Stop supporting these shitty corporations and you won’t be constantly fucked over by them. Any corporation can end up with a board or executive that is a prude or overly religious or a fascist dickhead. So just don’t support them if you can help it.
The company I’ve been supporting for decades…
[ insert guy applying clown makeup meme… ]
People in the US finding out that corporations are not their friends… Welcome to capitalism!
God forbid a woman not being up to date on the politics of modern technology.
I mean, they could just… use something else?
Right, just like anyone could stop using anything they found objectionable or immoral and keep their mouths shut about it, but this is exactly the type of thing not to keep your mouth shut about.
Software that enable you to do something should at some point just do that. To get good at something, invest time and money into an ecosystem that takes a lot of both to invest in, shouldn’t arbitrarily use that as leverage against it’s users to impose it’s morals on them.
Sure she could switch to gimp, and arguably she should literally because of things like this, but that’s not something you can easily do with everything, and it’s worth calling out when a corporation leverages a virtual monopoly on something to force it’s users to comply with something like it’s judgement of content.
We’re lucky enough to have open source versions of a lot of things, but you don’t get anywhere simply voting with your wallet. Where you get somewhere is voting with a lot of people’s wallets.
Sure, but a tool shouldn’t care how you use it.
Exactly. This shit should not be normalized. It is bonkers that a professionally marketed tool is trying to coddle anyone.
