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William Shatner 

@speculative wait, william shatner said something about this? where?

William Shatner 

@andlabs On his Twitter. He didn't really express the point well and it sounded like he was blaming the fact that Mastodon is open source, but there was a point in there somewhere that someone (a malicious actor) can do as they please with the server instance they run.

William Shatner 

@speculative I guess he has a point about open source web services allowing evil things to be done (this kind of thing is why the Affero GPL exists, though not literally what is being discussed here)

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