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Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.

Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.

I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.

If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
    413·
    17 hours ago

    actions done collectively by SystemD

    Nope. It only needs one maintainer to do the PR

    It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers

    You know what will discourage Them more? Id verification

    relatively inconsequential law

    Give me your Id. Seriously, go and give me your ID with nothing blurred.

        • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          728·
          8 hours ago

          That’s not what they asked

          Yes, I know. I answered the question that reasonably follows from the context. Not their loaded question that assumes something which was not in the pull request.

          I know a lot of people like to use the slippery slope fallacy here but even if that applies, you should limit your resistance to points where you actually have a leg to stand on. It’s not like the government would find it much harder to jump straight to age verification without this age indication step. Going all-in now just does all manner of a disservice to the cause of digital privacy.

          • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
            3·
            4 hours ago

            what follows from context is you giving them your ID and birth certificate so he knows you aren’t lying about your age.

          • drastic133@lemmy.ml
            2·
            4 hours ago

            You are right that it was a loaded question, and you had a smart answer, but the implication of this “inconsequential” change represented by the current birthdate is of course more invasive identification later.

            Otherwise why would they bother, because as it is now it is useless or inconsequential.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            712·
            9 hours ago

            They don’t want to be correct, they want to be outraged.

            This is the same Reddit-brained nonsense that ruined those communities.