Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 00:11:39 +0100 From: "M." <maficccc@gmail.com> To: John Darrah <timmcgrawfan@protonmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's politics problem Message-ID: <CAKkTdTOUnRfVLj19ceahM3%2BLUz2DGBHQoXJ49mXJaQ-_xof-GQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6d2JakAYeM2E8PxcTzAulsl0FCU-76lOjBF_KOn-HtspxRbrGVkZWKi0K2BwErZJnQ3eEbuLp4eOUOhehhBwRfgu3Q9nABfOd5uzv1Mi1ZA=@protonmail.com> References: <6d2JakAYeM2E8PxcTzAulsl0FCU-76lOjBF_KOn-HtspxRbrGVkZWKi0K2BwErZJnQ3eEbuLp4eOUOhehhBwRfgu3Q9nABfOd5uzv1Mi1ZA=@protonmail.com>
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This is some joke ? 2018-03-03 23:32 GMT+01:00 John Darrah via freebsd-chat < freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>: > FreeBSD recently introduced an updated Code of Conduct that developers and > members must adhere to. There has been much backlash online about it and > about introducing identity politics into a technical OS project in general. > The Code of Conduct was adopted from the "Geek Feminism" wiki's version, > which claims (among other things) that racism against whites doesn't exist, > sexism against men doesn't exist, and that certain protected classes of > people should not be criticised. > > Emails of the internal discussion about this controversial Code of Conduct > have now been leaked publicly, painting a picture of the disagreement in > the FreeBSD project about how this was handled. > > A number of developers, particularly benno@, phk@ and des@, have used > racist > and sexist remarks against those criticising the far-reaching project > policy > change, saying that the concerns about the policy essentially boil down to > "white male privilege" and being "on the wrong side of history". > > Other developers expressed concern about the policy being thrown upon them > with no discussion or debate, as well as The FreeBSD Foundation's choice > to pay an outside person (with donations from the users) to work on the > Code of Conduct's enforcement. Said person identifies as a feminist. > > Mods on BSD and FreeBSD-related subreddits are censoring posts, removing > threads, and banning users for posting the link. Colin Percival is among > the mods doing the removal. FreeBSD forum mods are also cracking down and > eliminating any discussion. Censorship is not the way to win culture wars. > > This file is an email archive in MBOX format. You can open it with any > email client (including the mail or mutt commands) or view it as plaintext > with any text editor. It contains just over 200 emails. > > View: > https://privatebin.net/?4c0fb59e63e8271e#irS3KFaEdtuFxsVM4xzQ4/ > llXLhSz0oZLV9WuOEUHBc= > > Download: > https://mega.nz/#!xBpHBSAb!ENyoYPopqGVlx320X-a4ecpRjJBtPvd9jmRT9h57eao > https://my.mixtape.moe/nhybsi.mbox > > I encourage you to read and form your own opinions, especially with regard > to how the project is handling donation money. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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