[Yetanfou]

I'd rephrase that as 'free software should not do any politics which goes outside of the specific issues which it was created to influence', i.e. issues around copyright law, freedom of expression and related areas. Software licences should be free of politics other than those mentioned areas, both to avoid weakening the licence as well as to avoid fractioning the free software landscape into political factions. Free software developers are of course free to do politics but it should be made clear that any political expression outside the mentioned areas is done on a personal note and does not represent the project - something which can be hard to do for 1-person projects.

[benjaminjosephw]

The author is complaining about the twitter accounts of open source contributors. Should they withhold their views on justice because it offends some of their followers?

Yes, weakening free licenses with constraints aligned to individual causes is problematic but that doesn't mean we should ignore all other issues of justice outside of those related to ownership and control. If anything, we need more conversations about the increasing inequalities and injustices caused by technology and the role we play within that. How can we do that without having "political" discussions in public? Why shouldn't entire open source communities have these discussions collectively?