Pijul – Datacenter on Fires
<i>&gt; In the particular case of Scaleway, the largest shareholder is very active in French politics (to the point of buying a major news outlet), and a vocal supporter of the side that, in the last four years alone, caused months of riots (only stopped by Covid-19), organised militia against its fellow citizens, gave presidential interviews to magazines equating black people to slaves, and didn’t immediately and strongly object to threats of a military coup “in memory” of colonisation in Algeria.</i><p>Wow... that&#x27;s... an extremely partisan description of Emmanuel Macron, to say the least. In particular, there&#x27;s a lot to dislike about how Macron and the government handled the Benalla scandal, but saying they &quot;organized a militia against its fellow citizens&quot; is about as honest as saying &quot;the US government is running extermination camps&quot; because it detains immigrants.<p>Otherwise, the takeaway from that section seems to be &quot;Scaleway is out of bounds because its largest owner is a supporter of the President of the Republic&quot;? I&#x27;m sorry, but what?<p>What&#x27;s next, you&#x27;re not allowed to connect to a Pijul database if your ISP is Free, because Free is also owned by Xavier Niel? You&#x27;re not allowed to contribute to the code if you were taught at the 42 School? (yes, I&#x27;m caricaturing, but still)<p>I&#x27;m not completely against politicization of tech; I get not wanting to build AI that ends up being used for militant policing, for instance; in this case, I get not wanting ties with Dassault to avoid getting tangled with the arms industry. But advertising &quot;we won&#x27;t work with this company because a shareholder is a support of the president and the president went on French Fox News once&quot; is the kind of ultra-divisive, &quot;we will separate the world into good guys and bad guys and erect an impassable wall between the two&quot; mentality I just can&#x27;t get behind.