Is the Vivaldi Team Anti-Chinese Communist Party?
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@smeteor01 Vivaldi protects the privacy of its users.
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@smeteor01 Vivaldi takes no political positions. It is for its users. It is against no one.
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@Gwen-Dragon You are not a Vivaldi employee, therefore you don’t represent the company anyway.
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Not sure about anyone else but i just enjoy the end product and the politics of the company or developers is irrelevant.
My opinion for what it is worth. -
For what its worth, as an individual I stand for anyone who suffers oppression by a greater power.
As a forum moderator I can only police the code of conduct for this forum as it is stated here. The CoC says content must abide by local and international law, and as Vivaldi has no local offices in HK or China, we are not bound to follow their laws.
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Just out of curiousity and to put things into perspective,even if the vivaldi team were communist party then how does it affect the end product as such.?,I am sure vivaldi are not communist but really we never truly "know" what political affiliations people have until it is put to the test.
To widen the spectrum,Does political views affect "all" products.?
Microsoft for example.what are their allegiances or any other big global company for that matter. -
@Priest72 That’s the wrong question. As you probably know products like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, &c. are blocked in China, because they, for instance, deny to block content the party doesn’t want to see published. Vivaldi doesn’t necessarily provide content and furthermore it’s small, but should Vivaldi openly run a campaign against the people party I don’t know what would happen. Either they would be ignored, or the product would be blocked in China.
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@guigirl said in Is the Vivaldi Team Anti-Chinese Communist Party?:
...at worst morally-neutral in all their public stances
All of their public stances? So even if you 99% agreed with some company's public stances, that 1% of disagreement would be enough that you wouldn't use their products?
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I don't see things as complicated. I think that a technological product that conforms to the needs of the user is a valid product that lacks political implications at the user level. However, political neutrality is still impossible in certain cases.
You cannot have a neutral position between those who respect human rights and those who violate them, because then de facto one is with the seconds.
But these observations in the technological field are useless, if not, we could not use half of the products that exist, we could not use Arabian oil, Russian space stations, Chinese vaccines, the clothes we carry, food from third world countries, the mobile we use for the Coltan that it carry, etc.
Political observations should come from people to influence certain governments, not technical products that we all use.
We have to look a little more about our own habits regarding human rights, no country is blameless, be it totalitarian regimes that violate them or neo-liberalism and consumerism savage that causes wars and miseries in third countries.
Regarding Vivaldi, I do believe that on a personal level the employees reject human rights violations, but what other browser allows vertical writing used in Asian countries? Is a product for the people, and this has nothing to do with the regime in which they live. -
@smeteor01 Why do you want to know if the Vivaldi Team is Anti-Chinese Communist Party?
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