• stravanasu@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    He did not just suggest it. He went on and implemented it. All while the community was telling him “we don’t want this”, “stop with this” – look at the comments on GitHub. Yet he neglected all this feedback.

    As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right? If you go ahead while the community is telling you “we don’t want this”, then whom are you working for?

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      As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right?

      1. They don’t work for anyone.
      2. Even if they did, it sure as hell wouldn’t be for you.
      3. Even if they did work for you, they are under no obligation to even think about breaking the law for you.
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        2 hours ago

        Of course there are no obligations and he’s’free to do as he pleases. Likewise, the community or I are under no obligations of not criticizing him for what he chose to do.

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          53 minutes ago

          This isn’t criticism.

          Taking a person, photoshopping their picture to look like a dossier on a criminal and writing a hit piece which includes all of their publicly available information is doxxing for the purpose of harassment.

          Lemmy is a small community, read some of the comments in this post and you’ll see people using violent language, calling him a traitor, etc.

          I didn’t even have to go far to find an example, literally the comment under my reply:

          https://lemmy.world/post/44550728/22802099

          A mistake without regret must be punished. They are not kids acting silly. I don’t feel comfortable with a foot on my neck, even when that foot isn’t pressing very hard.

          Expand that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of people on Reddit (where this exact article is also posted) and the chances of some crazy person going out and doing harm to this man increases.

          This is why public doxxing is wrong and anyone participating in this is morally corrupt.