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   Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:00:25 JST Jonathan Corbet

   in reply to

   • Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
   • tante
   @larsmb @tante I think the point in question was highly visible enough.
   
   Had that conversation been allowed to continue, it would have gone on for hundreds of posts, and brought people out of the woodwork that you really would rather not know even exist. We've been there in the past, and it threatened to kill the site at one point. Thus our "no personal attacks" policy, which we had to enforce here.
   
   Should we, instead, have just pulled down the article, as some are saying? That would have "blocked the discussion" too, of course. We also try not to hide our mistakes.
   
   Things like this make me wish I'd made a career in JavaScript framework development or some such. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some kernel drama to somehow deal with.
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     Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (larsmb@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:00:26 JST Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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     • tante

     @tante Hey @corbet, it's been awhile since we met! You've asked to not discuss this on the article itself.
     So maybe this is a better forum?

     "Someone's stance isn't relevant." I don't think we can afford that anymore (if we ever could); e.g., to pick different example, the influence of anti-democratic/billionaire-owned companies on FLOSS, ...

     I don't think LWN does the community a service by blocking those discussions.

     Will this create strive? No. It'll make it *visible*.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:00:27 JST tante

     "Justine's views in unrelated areas are not relevant to this article."

     And that is a problem Tech (corporate and Open Source/Free Software!) needs to fix: It absolutely matters that Justine Tunney uses antisemitic and racist dogwhistles as project names, that she publicly argued for fascist government by tech CEOs. I don't care about her technology at all if her existence is about destroying democracy. (It's still a stain on Mozilla to pay for for her llamafile shit). And Tunney isn't the only character that this logic is applied to.

     We don't want tech build by racists, fascists, LGBTQ*IA-phobes and whatever shitlord we can find in some basement dungeon.

     https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113520250162734614