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by geofft
3824 days ago
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I'm not entirely sure that it's to the advantage of an operating system development project to have free speech as an ideal. At the very least, there's the empirical argument that the major operating systems are overwhelmingly developed by private corporations, and you can be sure that if a developer said "hey, this new hire is getting his white supremacist followers on Twitter to attack me," the new hire wouldn't be working on that project very much more. And we generally don't find the price of this less-than-free speech too much to pay. Can you explain why it helps develop a better net installer or Linux emulation layer to be able to use slurs against fellow developers? |
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A COC forces you to be compliant to it every where on social media, on regular media, in person, on private forums... everywhere - this is thought police.
A COC forces you to "hide" your personal beliefs, ideas, who you vote for who you donate money to etc. on the off chance they might be considered offensive to some one.
We already had a CEO who had to resign due to a political donation, COC's will have the same effect you post something offensive on facebook? you're out, you go to a political rally that some one finds offensive? well though luck.
If COC's only covered official project channels no one would care about them, and the people that want them would not push with such vigor because they could not be used for thought policing.
On a side note I find it ironic that people who had to hide who they are for most of history and maybe for most of their lives want to force the same thing on other people just because of their personal beliefs.
And on another side note the wworse of the humanity tends to fester in dark rooms when things are out in the open you know here everyone stands and you can ridicule them for that if you want.