[kstenerud]

The trouble is that one generation ago we as people of the free world abhorred the idea of punishing individuals for their beliefs. Now that has changed.

It's not the first time this happened, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's always ended badly in the past.

[junke]

religious beliefs != informed opinions

Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?

[kstenerud]

> religious beliefs != informed opinions

Opinions are beliefs, and beliefs aren't by necessity religious.

> Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?

Thank you for the example. This never used to be an issue. 15 years ago, one didn't care what a colleague believed, so long as they conducted business in a professional manner. Nowadays one feels a need to distance ones self at all costs lest one be tarred with the same brush and similarly punished (as we see happening all around us these days - and in fact specifically in your earlier Chrome extension example).

[torthrowaway998]

Stallman has informed opinions on these topics however. He is not some Q nutjob.

As for me, as long as they were being tolerant of others and did not withdraw from public dialogue then sure, I would not mind working with him.

>>That's exactly what these totalitarian wokists aim for: to make people afraid to oppose them.

>Look who is insulting people here and making assumptions.

Is there any other reason for the plugin? I personally know at least two people (not including myself) who did not sign it because they feared of being "cancelled".

[simion314]

>Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?

Say I created an open source library and you are a contributor, now you find out that I am a pro-life (or communist or watch dubious japanese adult content), you are free to stop contributing sure, but why should you try to steal my job and project because you don;t like my opinions? You probably will say that is bad PR for my library and my library is very important for the community so you should spread a lot of missinformation about me to force me out and free the library using mod tactics.