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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.

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
    3211·
    13 hours ago

    first off, please announce that the video is from that brody clown so people can not click on that slop; needless to say, I ain’t watched it so I don’t know or care what points was made in it.

    second, what OP is doing in OP and his bonehead comments is purposefully pushing a strawman argument, false dichotomy, red herring, and all the other logical fallacies in order to posture as a hero or whatever they got going on between their ears - if you’re anti this bullshit “law” then you are also pro physically harming poor FOSS “contributors”.

    this fucking “contribution” shoulda been shot down like any other troll/bullshit plaguing every other FOSS project beset with ai bots and carma-farming typo-fixers and the like, and if by some mistake their “contribution” was accepted, here’s a chance to reverse it.

    cali ain’t the world, which by and large ain’t got no such idiocy on the books. and if it did, I wouldn’t bootlick my way to submitting a patch to incorporate it; I would, in fact, oppose it any way I could.

    that clown of a “contributor” has a history of simping for the backwardest ideas, antithetical to FOSS and I don’t care one bit what he has to say on any one topic.

    • Hexarei@beehaw.org
      121·
      11 hours ago

      Funny to see someone else with an active distaste for his videos. He sets off predatory alarm bells in my head and feels smarmy to me.

      • aim_at_me@lemmy.nzEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah. Brody and Lunduke both have some very strange positions I don’t agree with. They also just kinda give the ick, as the cool kids would put it.

        Lunduke got posted yesterday as well.

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      815·
      13 hours ago

      Needless to say, I ain’t watched it so I don’t know or care what points was made in it.

      cali ain’t the world, which by and large ain’t got no such idiocy on the books. and if it did, I wouldn’t bootlick my way to submitting a patch to incorporate it; I would, in fact, oppose it any way I could. that clown of a “contributor” has a history of simping for the backwardest ideas, antithetical to FOSS and I don’t care one bit what he has to say on any one topic.

      If you refuse to listen to the experience of the person the Linux community has been harassing, then don’t comment.

      what OP is doing in OP and his bonehead comments is purposefully pushing … and all the other logical fallacies … if you’re anti this bullshit “law” then you are also pro physically harming poor FOSS “contributors”.

      Many Lemmy users have explicitly called for violence against Dylan Taylor, and many more have brought forwards implied calls to violence. The Lemmy community is broadly 50:50 on their support for said calls for the violence.

      • glitching@lemmy.ml
        176·
        13 hours ago

        I’m commenting on your shitty takes. second, if you’ve spent decades (that’s plural yo) on this planet, then you’re familiar with the concept of a hyperbole. a hyperbole is a purposefully exaggerated statement in order to draw attention to the importance of an issue. e.g. I could eat a horse - no you couldn’t, you’re just mildly inconvenienced with what you think is hunger.

        consequently, there’s a distinction to be made between actual calls to violence (of which I haven’t seen any on this platform) and vividly voicing disgust and anger.

        • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          510·
          12 hours ago

          Excellent. Just having his face out there will discourage him for good, once he gets the backlash.

          There is a special guillotine for this wannabe parasite.

          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.

          What you are really asking is how far will people go to defend freedom? Look at history, my friend.

          He didn’t have to do this. If he wants to do his part to make everyone else’s life worse, then he will have to face the consequences for it.

          Nah useful idiots like this deserve the shit they’ll get.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            14·
            7 hours ago

            Some more for the “I haven’t seen any calls to violence” crowd.

            he should have chilled the fuck out over deepthroating boots as soon as he saw them. Fuck around , find out.

            What I’ve learned is that it’s basically impossible to convince people that the only real way to solve this is violent revolution.

            I’m glad to hear he’s getting his shit fucked, maybe he’ll roll back the commit.

            EDIT : This fucker is lucky with the amount of hate he’s getting, there’s plenty of people who hate his guts over what he did, and didn’t personally reach out to yell some sense into him

      • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
        21·
        8 hours ago

        The Lemmy community is broadly 50:50 on their support for said calls for the violence.

        1. There’s astroturfing. Careful with judging community vibes by obviously votes but also comments.

        2. There is more to “The Lemmy community” than what’s on display on .ml.