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FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org)
FreeBSD has a new code of conduct, which is making several people angry. From the blog post: This code of conduct applies to all spaces used by the FreeBSD Project, including our mailing lists, IRC channels, and social media, both online and off. Anyone who is found to violate this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from FreeBSD Project controlled spaces at the discretion of the FreeBSD Code of Conduct Committee. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules. Harassment includes but is not limited to: Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment. Deliberate misgendering. Deliberate use of "dead" or rejected names. Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate.
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop. Threats of violence. Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm. Deliberate intimidation. Stalking or following. Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes. Sustained disruption of discussion. Unwelcome sexual attention. Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others. Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease. Deliberate "outing" of any private aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse. Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent. Publication of non-harassing private communication with consent but in a way that intentionally misrepresents the communication (e.g., removes context that changes the meaning). Knowingly making harmful false claims about a person.
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop. Threats of violence. Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm. Deliberate intimidation. Stalking or following. Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes. Sustained disruption of discussion. Unwelcome sexual attention. Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others. Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease. Deliberate "outing" of any private aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse. Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent. Publication of non-harassing private communication with consent but in a way that intentionally misrepresents the communication (e.g., removes context that changes the meaning). Knowingly making harmful false claims about a person.
Did they need a code of conduct to be spelled out for them in the first place? This is a distraction, nothing more. Move along now, there is work to be done. Don't get into a fit if you aren't affected. Projects need members and volunteers, who would like the focus to be on the code i.e. their work. If you or someone you know need something else, there are places for that. But not while this worker is in the zone.
Today's captcha: grownup, as in, act like one.
Oh...
I thought aren't these already implied forms of human conduct and interaction, in other words; nothing new?
But apparently there are reasons to write it out for those that are lacking the required sensitivities for polite conduct.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Actually you are being to much of a geek, and not enough SJW. In this context a "dead name" is the previous name of a transgender before they changed. And yes, I had to google it.
You just don't realize that if you ever get the kind of world you keep hoping for, you'll probably be one of the first to go in the dustbin.
the national liberal party in the US (the Democratic party) hasn't been caught up in the craziness of the left
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt" - a candidate to lead the Democratic Party. But hey no problem, the deputy director openly supports violent antifa and has been caught red-handed endorsing anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Many times, I've had to ask myself: Has our world gone completely mad? Consider the people who called us racist simply for wanting to enforce our borders. Or the media that tried to convince us that Michelle Fields was actually assaulted. Or the special needs kid who was tortured on Facebook live and made to drink toilet water because he was a white Trump supporter. Or the protesters who planned an acid attack to stop a party and threw batteries and smoke bombs at the attendees. Who are the fascists again?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt" - a candidate to lead the Democratic Party.
A third-place candidate who received twelve votes and dropped out.
And the Republicans were unable to stop Trump from ascending to the top of their party.
My point? Democracy is fragile. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I'm not sure what your point was.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I have one of those too. I emailed Slashdot to get rid of it. They said they can't remove it. Rather than make a new account, I said "fuck it" and rolled with it. I changed my login from my Gmail one a looooooooong time ago. I don't even know if I still have access to that defunct account. Don't blame him for the stupid G+ logo; it's basically a useless scarlet letter.
This is the continuation of this effort. They've destroyed the atheist movement, largely destroyed many 'level-headed' green, anti-capitalist and other liberal movements, all feminist and most if not all sex-positive communities, working hard on the movie and comic book communities and now we see inroads in tech, FreeBSD communities will soon be a wasteland of self-righteous bullshit.
We're creating a generation of fascists with these kind of actions. Mark my words, when you can't see that hating white men is the same as hating male Jews, or female blacks, you are creating a power vacuum for people like Hitler on either side of the spectrum.
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I've been using, supporting and promoting FreeBSD for decades. Sadly, now that I'm aware of this change to the "Code of Conduct", I no longer can, nor will.
The old Code of Conduct was fine. In contrast, this newer version comes across as taking sides in the culture war for the sake of taking sides and virtue signaling someone's proclamation of who they support.
While looking into where this update came from, I did find this note from a quarterly status report, "Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, has been overseeing the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of Conduct to help make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community." From what I can tell, she's used her position in the FreeBSD Foundation to push this through. There was no public discussion nor debate on it by the members of the FreeBSD community before the change.
Fortunately, there are other *BSDs out there.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
...Ummm... Hate to break this to you, but, Nazis were socialists....
This is a very common myth, and now is as good a time as any to debunk it. They called themselves "national socialists" to attract people (and distinguish themselves from "international socialists"), but all of the actual socialists were purged in the night of the long knives.
Nazis were neither right-wing nor left-wing in either the French Revolution sense or in the modern sense.