"It becomes hard to attract contributors when the project gets defined by the actions of one of its participants." I'm unaware of anyone ever making a decision

"It becomes hard to attract contributors when the project gets defined by the actions of one of its participants." I'm unaware of anyone ever making a decision about contributing to a software project based on secret police level surveillance of current team members political or religious opinions. Even classified DoD stuff I've been involved in isn't that creepy. Its important to focus discussion on extremes such as murders when the actual goal is to make sure Republicans are unemployable.