Preliminary board statement on FSF governance

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13 points·codewiz··4 comments

Just ignore the woke campaigners and they'll be on to the next outrage in less than 5 days. Cancel culture is toxic and insidious witch-hunting and harms the people it purports to protect.

This is a worrying announcement. I really hope they do not cave to pressure from woke activists. Whenever this happens, some people or organizations mistakenly think there is some consequence awaiting them just because some loud students or Twitter accounts are complaining. There isn’t. So don’t cave to their demands. If you do cave in, and backtrack, and apologize - there’ll be no redemption for you, just people piling on you from both sides, leaving you feeling like you should have grown a spine and defended rationality against the modern witch hunt that is cancel culture.

Related discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573717

> This is a worrying announcement.

Why? All the points sound reasonable and definitely a step towards more transparency. Notice that RMS is on the board that proposes these points. I would have appreciated if the FSF had been more transparent in all this since the beginning.

"They hated him because he told the truth"

This same logic can be applied to woke/leftist activists at work: So don’t cave to their demands. If you do cave in, and backtrack, and apologize - there’ll be no redemption for you, just people piling on you from both sides, leaving you feeling like you should have grown a spine and defended rationality against the modern witch hunt that is cancel culture.

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