On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 11:57 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:42 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > What is the point you're making? If GF decides to kick you from Gentoo, > > will you also claim that it was their legal right? > > > > IMO the lesson to be learned here is that we ought to design Gentoo in > such a way that if the GF kicks us all from Gentoo, it isn't a big > deal at all. The reason everybody is all upset is that the Freenode > change WAS a big deal and has been difficult to work through. > Obviously it wasn't THAT big of a problem, but ideally we should be > more resilient and just take things like this in stride. > > People get deplatformed all the time these days, often from multiple > platforms at the same time. Anybody sane doing anything online should > just expect it to happen to them at some point. >
Just because something is happening 'all the time these days', it doesn't mean we have to justify it. if you start justifying bad things like this, how are things supposed to get better? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
