it’s not about actual ethical use when we are talking about software

This deeply misunderstands ethics. All actions are moral choices. Do I understand you correctly that you propose the polar opposite, that no actions are moral choices, with regards to software? I don’t expect you’d say it’s ethically fine to write software to orchestrate a genocide.

Stack Overflow was always about sharing your learning and knowledge with other humans. Just like open source. We didn’t anticipate, and didn’t give permission, for it being used to train AI.

Do you consider a post supporting a Trump policy to be as bad as being the largest donor to a far-right party?

I’ve not seen a single article about Proton that’s made me abandon them. Diversified away from, yes, but not abandon.

The privacy community will be under fire from very powerful interests, so I also take all criticism with a mountain of salt.