Also many of the sponsored projects help people circumvent authoritarian government overreach, which is something that until recently has been considered "good" for the US. The more freely information can flow the harder it is for authoritarian regimes to exert control.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

FOSS is already stale for a long time by large corporations (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, X, etc), all of these with own developments of FOSS, these are not affected by this cuts for OpenSource proyects, but small startups, individual devs and small companies and oprganisations. It's not against FOSS, it's about control and clear against freedom.

Fuck the US https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/eu-oss-catalogue

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they use for browser for something?

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Use it? The US invented it. The US has historically funded it as part of their human rights initiatives. Like I said:

Also many of the sponsored projects help people circumvent authoritarian government overreach, which is something that until recently has been considered "good" for the US. The more freely information can flow the harder it is for authoritarian regimes to exert control.

Given the nature of the Tor network, it's likely any "official" use within the US government would probably involve things like communicating with people working undercover / informants, etc., and not be something broadly discussed.

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool, that's a good idea for them to do.