That being said it's an interesting effort that could become something nice with some community love

That being said the logo is a fair point. It's quite frequent. That being said, even if it's frequently used it's not a proof of an organized and coordinated movement. During the various House/Senate hearings, no one was able to bring any proof (or even tried for that matter) that there's coordination between those groups for nefarious purposes or otherwise.

And the explanation is simple, there isn't. It's all in the title. They're just anti fascist groups. In France at least you just see them when there are white supremacists attacking minority groups for fun (yes it happens, saw it a few time in my engineering school). Friends of mine used to call them when white guys came to punch blacks and arabs at their parties. Outside of this, they're basically not doing anything except maybe doing tattoos on each others and writing slogans on their backpacks. In an ideal world, the cops would do that. But they aren't doing it in any effective capacity.

It's a bit horrendous that countries which went to war against fascism now treat anti fascism as suspicious or even dangerous, especially when the number of physical attacks against minorities are rising back up.

It's not antifa groups baiting gay people on grindr to beam them up. Yes, it's a thing, and yes it's "alt-right" people. But who cares, the orange president said they were fine people...

I think the smaller companies or individual which did stuff like that got their life ruined. The pirate bay admin got fined multiple millions of dollars.

So if I agree it's not a "free pass", it's still a cheap pass many others didn't get. Makes me realize how, as mentioned by other comments, copyright laws are a tool for the powerful to oppress others rather than an actual universal right.

I wish regulators across the world did something about this, but even Europe shy attempts aren't moving the market in a better direction.

It's depressing to see a company that thrived from the open internet becoming such an evil piece of cyberpunk lore. I mean... Nobody really expected Apple to care about anything else than its bottom line. But I'm not alone to have had hopes about Google.

When I die, I think not fighting Google when it was still time will be one of the regrets I'll drag into my grave.

I understand this is a significant topic in the industry but the ratio is really high. Every time someone at OpenAI or Anthropic farts, there's top 10 post.

It makes me feel as if a lot of hackers had given up on actual hacking to just be followers of the latest commercial stuff thrown on the market. It's likely a projection of my own fears, but I have not been able to shake it off and it's gotten worse and worse.