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Canceling is not about criminal behavior. It's about the gap between the regulation of behavior the law puts on us all and individual's decisions about what the
by shadowgovt 2y ago
Canceling is not about criminal behavior. It's about the gap between the regulation of behavior the law puts on us all and individual's decisions about what they will tolerate.
Freedom of association lives right next to freedom of speech in the Constitution. His right to say what he wants does not impinge on my right to think that every time he opens his mouth these days he sets the movement back.
... Besides, nobody in this story (including, I surmise, you) is actually against cancelling. Avoiding closed-source software because it doesn't align with the Four Freedoms is just cancelling. Cancelling is front-and-center in Free Software's toolbox.
- fsflover 2y agoCancelling is punishing of an individual by the crowd without a fair process. It should not exist. Choosing your software is not cancelling.
- shadowgovt 2y agoIf you can slide a conceptual wedge between the free choice to use GNU over Microsoft because you believe in the Four Freedoms and the free choice to not work with FSF until they oust Stallman because you believe he's a creep, go for it. It's the same thing: personal choice intended to influence the shape of the world.
- fsflover 2y ago> and the free choice to not work with FSF This is your right, just like choosing the software. However, trying to force everybody to stop supporting FSF or to cancel Stallman without a fair process is very different and wrong.
- shadowgovt 2y agoWho's being forced? Collective action isn't forcing; it's voluntary choice.