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I genuinely cannot believe the number of people who are equating the actions of a private organization to authoritarianism and “cancel culture”. Is this not the

I genuinely cannot believe the number of people who are equating the actions of a private organization to authoritarianism and “cancel culture”. Is this not the free market working as intended? That the public has a voice in who/what succeeds?

lpsignal 6y ago
The public in general does not have a voice. If you defend Stallman directly under your real name, you will be canceled as a fellow traveler. In the cancel-rms petition everyone was posting under their real names. Being on that list probably has positive consequences for your career at Google or Microsoft. The keep-rms petition was full of pseudonyms, only people from Eastern Europe dared to post under their real names.