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Somebody made a post promoting the proprietary search engine they are working on, claiming in the post that it "would make Stallman smile". In a comment below the post they said that they made the statement about Stallman to "drive engagement". The post was later removed for promoting proprietary software.

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At the top is a screenshot from the modlog saying:

Removed Post We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page.
reason: Comm rule 2: Don’t promote proprietary software

Below that is an image of Stallman smiling.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

It's just like when magahats call themselves patriots.

Wrong in every factual way but no amount of you telling them will make them realize it.

That OP was just another silicon digibro with a profit driven mindset.