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He is not angry, he is tired. He is tired of propaganda, misrepresentation, vicious attacks on social platforms, and the endless rage that is coming from that c
by istvan__ 11y ago
He is not angry, he is tired. He is tired of propaganda, misrepresentation, vicious attacks on social platforms, and the endless rage that is coming from that community.
Our virtual workplace (GitHub) is a social code sharing platform for people who want to make this world better by contributing their hard work to the community, that is humanity.
Imagine that after working free, doing your best to improve this society with your contribution, there is a vicious troll coming in and asking you to deny access to one of you contributors because he disagrees on his personal twitter account.
Would want to contribute code after that? You have to realized that if all of these people are intimidated to maintain online presence and contribute code we are not going to have this rich open source ecosystem.
Another angle for the problem:
When you are unhappy about something the productive successful people go and fix it. The less productive people are raging about it. In this context if you are unhappy about his tweet you go and message him on twitter and start a civil conversation. You don't go to his workplace and trying to discredit him with lies and false information. This is usually done by extremists (pretty common practice in my country, neonazis do that all the time).
Until now, I was part of the silent group that does not fight back, but that came to an end with the opal story. It is our (the political centre) responsibility to not let this society slide to extremism by any mean. If we don't do that, we gonna end up with a divided society that is less humane and open than it was before.
Some additional reading material: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19670223.htm http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19670223.htm