CoCs are tools of power and control. my intuition is that this makes them incompatible with the notion of freedom in free software.

the only way to make them barely compatible would be to make not only the formulation of the CoC, but also its enforcement, a instrument of self-control by the community, with consensus legislation and random-juri enforcement. it often comes from a vocal and pushy subgroup, which may or may not be a problem in itself, but that's already suspicious to me. it seems that whenever it assigns positions of power for evolution and enforcement, it attracts power-hungry people, who tend to be authoritarian (a big minus for me) and that sooner or later end up corrupted by power (because power corrupts, and that's another minus for centralized power, and a plus for keeping power dispersed in the community). it's basically a poor recipe to try to solve a real problem, that rather than ceasing discrimination, ends up redirecting it, and creating other problems. all in all, it seems to be a power booster rather than a freedom booster.

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