[umvi]

More like:

- You have a successful GitHub project.

- One of your key contributors voted for Trump

- PC police come and demand you kick said contributor off of your project for violating CoC because they went digging through his Twitter history and found a tweet with him wearing a MAGA hat

- You disagree and say it's his right to vote for whoever he wants

- PC police do everything they can do destroy you and your project because you have run afoul of their wishes

[bilbo0s]

My argument is so what?

That's what living in a nation with the First means. People can protest you, even for frivolous reasons. I could go organize an online protest against Mattel because I want a Malibu Barbie with stripper heels and poles.

The Constitution doesn't dictate how I use my rights, it only says that the government can't interfere with them. That's the line that can't be crossed.

Now if Twitter finds my request for Malibu Barbie Stripper Heels and Poles ridiculous and wants to get rid of me, that's their right.

Why? Because Freedom of Association is implicit in the First. And Twitter may decide that my request for Malibu Barbie Stripper Heels and Poles crosses a line that it isn't comfortable with.

Finally, I fully realize that Malibu Barbie Stripper Heels and Poles is obviously a ludicrous and trivial idea that Twitter would not even bother banning me for, but you get the idea. Some social justice warrior might come along and be offended by it and go on a crusade etc etc etc. But that's their right is the point.

[Miner49er]

you can make up any scenario you want. does this actually happen?

[oefrha]

It did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484347

[Miner49er]

That's just freedom of association in action.

> PC police do everything they can do destroy you and your project because you have run afoul of their wishes

No one was trying to destroy the Linux Foundation, Linux itself, or the KubeCon conference.

I've seen people say they'll stop working with a project if someone else they don't like is working on it, but I've never seen anyone actually attempt to destroy the project.

[umvi]

> No one was trying to destroy the Linux Foundation, Linux itself, or the KubeCon conference.

Right, because they acquiesced to the demands of the PC police. Had LF stood their ground and pushed back against the PC police, there may have been protests, etc. that caused KubeCon to be cancelled. Never underestimate the power of PC police whipping up a righteous maelstrom on twitter.

[Miner49er]

Again you can make up any scenario you want. You have no evidence that that is what actually would happen, because it didn't happen.

Even if it did, I don't see the problem. People have the right to protest and say what they want about the Linux Foundation.