@TatersForever5481 #226009
While not inherently screening for specific content is a part of it, I think it has more to do with the creators of those operating systems.
Microsoft Windows for example is the most commonly used and Bill Gates is hated for being one of the billionaires that questions his own enormous tax breaks. As infuriating as Microsoft’s business practices are Bill Gates does believe in giving something back through philanthropy unlike Musk or Bezos who very much think of their own wealth as an infinite money glitch to spend on rockets like toy trains because they go woosh. And occasionally boom, much more occasionally than any tax-funded program would ever permit to keep being funded. A money glitch that has no relation whatsoever to those loathsome parasitic employees who waste their time on bathroom breaks and passing out from heat, thirst, overwork, and especially in Musk’s case he loves to randomly fire absolutely critical people because he genuinely doesn’t know how to business.
Creators of open-source operating systems, the most viable alternatives to Microsoft and Apple, by nature are supporters of net neutrality and free information exchange which is far too liberal for their liking. Arch-conservatives as you might already be aware are deeply invested in being able to control what information people have access to and the narrative tone in which it is presented.
Beyond these established bodies, all of which are unsuitable to somebody who is proud of their tiny bubble of self-interest, the skillset required to create functional OS that won’t melt your hardware or crash trying to run calculator because the operative word in computer logic is indeed “logic” comes from higher education and critical long-term thinking which has that infamous liberal bias and moreover complex programming cannot execute if there are conflicts in established logic. The arch-conservative tendency for double-think and to set a value to be interpreted in completely opposite ways in otherwise identical situations is an actual physical barrier for them to be competent at computer programming. A hilarious example is the trouble Elon is having making an explicitly alt-right leaning AI program that generates and frames information in a way pleasing to him. AI famously incorporates racist tendencies copied from analyzing what humans have done in terms of things like hiring patterns and security alerts as training data rather than being hard-coded to do so but Elon trying to directly and inorganically bake in a centre of racist, sexist, Nazi-lusting fuckery has caused his dollar-store ripoff program to shove “white genocide” propaganda into queries about dogs and the weather, self-conflict, reveal the exact addition to its code that made it start aggressively incorporating that non-sequitur, and even talk shit about the man personally.