I’m disappointed to read how many members of this community will hand-wave away the harm done by actual fascism. Others made many good points, and the buttons are removed, but I think you all should consider that, yes, the Internet is full of terrible things, but having buttons at all is a promotion of those platforms. It’s not neutral to leave them in place - it implicitly endorses to the members of this community that those are places worth sharing the content on, whether they actually share it or not. And then it raises the social capital of those places in the public consciousness. It’s the difference between it being allowed for someone to walk into a bar full of Nazis and start talking about OpenStreetMap, and this site actively suggesting that all members go recruit OpenStreetMap participants at their nearest Nazi bar.
If you all want to have a libertarian view of it, that’s fine - the libertarian view is that this site doesn’t endorse any of it and you’re free to associate with who you want and post on Nazi platforms, but I certainly don’t want to be associated with a community that actively promotes that kind of platform. I appreciate that this community’s admins took action to remove the links.
That might be consistent with Free Software Foundation-style freedom, but IMO is not reflective of the much broader set of ideals that bring people into open culture movements. It certainly doesn’t speak for me. It’s also pretty demonstrably false when it comes to maps. The history of maps is full of politics. Maps were entirely political tools for a long time, and still are incredibly political - look no further than recent events related to the Gulf of Mexico/America to see how people try to use naming on maps to drive cultural narratives, and that’s the simplest way maps can be political. The decision to map something or not is political. This community makes political decisions in every proposal, in every discussion, and in everything it shows or doesn’t show on the map. If it doesn’t seem political, it might just be that you’re OK with the status quo - and that can be fine, but it doesn’t mean the status quo itself isn’t political.