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I'm getting tired of these lynchmobs. An opinion screamed out on Twitter is not important and should be dismissed. Neither Twitter or HN is the place to decide
by Daho0n 6y ago
I'm getting tired of these lynchmobs. An opinion screamed out on Twitter is not important and should be dismissed. Neither Twitter or HN is the place to decide for or against or dig around someone's life. The FSF's board is where this belongs. It disgusts me that HN is as bad as Reddit and Facebook and I'm extremely disappointed.
How would you feel if this where about you? HN is usually better than this.
- ipsocannibal 6y ago1. This isn't lynch mob. Its a discussion. 2. RMS is a public figure by his own choice. This is not the same as your average HN commentor. 3. HN is definitely the place to discuss the public actions of organizations and people in tech 4. Please take the holier than thou, shaming attitude back to Reddit.
- Daho0n 6y agoIf you use Reddit, Twitter or Facebook then that makes one of us. I don't use any social media outside HN.
- danaris 6y agoWell, personally, if it were about me, they wouldn't be able to say that I had refused to provide cost-of-living increases to people I employed because I don't understand that "slippery slope" is a fallacy, not a truism. In general, they wouldn't be able to say that I had mistreated people serially over the course of years with no apology, made a long string of bigoted and degrading statements about a wide variety of marginalized groups, and generally made an asshole of myself in public with no apparent understanding of why it was bad and no apology for it. I mean, what, did you think "how would you feel if they talked on Twitter about what you did at work" would result in similar stories for everyone?