| My guess is that you’ll rarely find this as it’s not a protected characteristic under the law (and, as far as I can see, CoCs essentially follow discrimination law). Whether that's the law wasn't my point. And actually some progressive states do have laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on political opinion. They probably came from the Hollywood Blacklists, and are now amusingly ignored and irrelevant as a moral principle now that the shoe is on the other foot. But Eich wasn’t fired, he stepped down and resigned of his own volition. Both he and others at Mozilla maintain this version of events, and it’s — as far as I can see — uncontested. You seem to be saying that you want a code of conduct that explicitly prohibits protest against political opinions. Good luck with that. The progressive demanded he lose his job and conducted a campaign until he did. Potato potato. his is a myth: “Deplatforming” is neither exclusive nor even more prevalent on the left. "They both do it" does not imply "the left doesn't do it". My point was just to introduce the tactic, which is relevant. Fighting against such nonsense seems eminently more sensible (and more winnable!) than fighting for the prohibition of political protest in codes of conduct. It is not winnable. Look at recent events, eg redis. And allowing codes of conduct that don't protect unrelated, out of scope, and otherwise politely expressed political opinions makes it even less winnable. |
So what you’re saying is that you want a code of conduct to protect Eich’s free speech but not that of the people who campaigned against him. That … simply doesn’t work.