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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Source was included in OPs post, not sure of the reasoning behind putting it through the wayback machine, but to each their own. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a There's a few more links within the article with other details.

The spreadsheet linked in the post is a bit weird but also has a lot of other interesting supporting details.

[–] [email protected] 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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's to avoid trackers and/or paywalls, and also to preserve it just in case. But yes, to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Usually people put links to sites they don't want to support in archive, so that the sites are deprived of traffic, leading to a reduction (albiet small) in ad revenue and possible paywall popups

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was more interested in the blatent political attack that some conservatives hurt foss in education.