I think it's interesting how many people on the Mastodon thread are saying "I think it was fine for Raspberry Pi to hire an ex-cop, but they should have been mo

I think it's interesting how many people on the Mastodon thread are saying "I think it was fine for Raspberry Pi to hire an ex-cop, but they should have been more polite to the people who are angry at them for hiring an ex-cop." I think it's essentially a disagreement about where the Overton window is. Raspberry Pi seems to think "harassing us because our new employee is an ex-cop is outside the Overton window" so they're dismissing/blocking people who are doing it. Whereas a lot of people in the Mastodon thread seem to think it's within the Overton window, so they're angry that Raspberry Pi isn't engaging with it seriously. (Another aspect is that corporate social media accounts are held to a higher standard than randos.)