Post #1971155

2026-03-21 14:38 UTC

@Foxboron, well, I suppose i'm missing some context here, but it really sounds like you are defending people who aren't just "forced" to implement something, but who are doing that wilfully while having openly expressed opinions largely in agreement with these laws. In other words, it sounds like another case of "Don't be angry at nazis, they're people too. Just kiss their feet and hope they don't decide that you don't deserve to live the next week. Unless they already believe that, and are just waiting for a good excuse to have you executed."

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@Foxboron@chaos.social 2026-03-21 14:40

@mgorny Do you think harassment of FOSS maintainers, developer and contributors is fine? Where harassment means writing dossiers/doxxing them or sending death threats?

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@ptrc@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-21 14:44

@mgorny @Foxboron you're also missing that in a lot of cases it comes from a place of ignorance, and not malice; in those cases, harassment and abuse will only make them double down on implementing something that they genuinely believe is right/necessary

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@dngrs@chaos.social 2026-03-22 06:22

@mgorny there was a somewhat weird hit piece: https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/ I do think it's good and necessary to push back very hard against complying in advance with surveillance state laws, but the vibes here felt a bit off.

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