If Debian didn’t want politics in their tech decisions, they should have focused their scope on tech decisions rather than politics. Not that there’s anything

If Debian didn’t want politics in their tech decisions, they should have focused their scope on tech decisions rather than politics. Not that there’s anything wrong with an organization holding forth on “issues of the day,” per se. But there is an iron law, effective ever since GamerGate-style tactics of “collecting receipts” and cross-platform and offline hounding became normalized as righteous retribution rather than harassment and bullying: your organization can have at most two of (1) transparency, (2) candor; (3) broader social relevance.