[alt187]

People are (understandably) sick of the fact that for whatever reason, the biggest proponents of Rust are insufferable.

Personally, I'm simply bothered by the fact that (one of?) the most famous figure of Rust on Linux and Rust Forever consumes and advocates for pornography that's illegal in my country, without being held accountable by the community.

From what I could piece together, the only group who ever cried wolf about this is a forum full of contemptious little angry men who spend weeks researching people they hate on the internet. No one seems to want to touch the subject from fear of being associated with them.

I'll give it to you, this is not a great time.

[JuniperMesos]

I'm genuinely not sure who you're talking about or whether this is an accurate characterization of their views. For that matter, I'm not sure what country you're in and whether I myself agree with that country's laws about whatever kind of pornography this is. Certainly plenty of countries I don't live in and have no ties to have laws I disagree with or violate routinely.

I'm pretty suspicious of demands for communities to hold people accountable, especially when the community in question is a loose group of people who mostly communicate online and are united by their shared use of a specific programming technology; and who probably disagree on all sorts of other issues, including contentious ones.

[egorfine]

> advocates for pornography that's illegal in my country, without being held accountable by the community

If some form of speech is illegal in your country it does automatically mean it should be illegal for the whole world or that it is wrong or that the world-wide community should adhere to standards specific to your country. Even if that country is USA.

In other words, nobody should give a flying f about open source developers porn preferences.

[hofrogs]

Who are you talking about? Asking in good faith, I never heard of that controversy before

[alt187]

The (retired?) head of a project trying to port Linux on Mac. I avoid naming names, not to be cryptic but because a lot of people like to stumble on these kinds of posts via search. Or moderate them. I'm not agreeing, but I can see why it's easier.

[rs186]

> Personally, I'm simply bothered by the fact that (one of?) the most famous figure of Rust on Linux and Rust Forever consumes and advocates for pornography that's illegal in my country, without being held accountable by the community.

Your abhorrent personal opinion of another individual has no place in a technical discussion.