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This is besides the point. The lead dev started going on a rant when facing a comment as simple as "this is informative, and unfortunate" on a video that he didn't like, and is unable to parse that statement as anything else but a personal attack at him. He threatened banning Louis over that unless he completely gave in. You can see the whole discussion in the video linked in the post above.

It's a communication issue at the core, and always doubling down is not making it any better.

It portrays the whole project as being unreliable.

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I know the whole story in depth and you keep iterating over the same thing.

If this person has indeed mental issues, to publicly expose it in a degrading light does not help him, or anyone else really.

If he doesn't have mental issues then all this discussion is unjustly defaming a person and damaging perception around mental issues.

Either way this discussion is bad.

You are the one portraying the project as unreliable. I only judge GrapheneOS by the actual output being delivered, the code and and the binary that is. And if you go down the route of validating the output based on his behaviour then i would flip it on you. I would much rather use an OS developed by a paranoid guy who thinks everyone hunts them. I'd bet it's more secure.

But this is silly-talk. What matters is the deliverable. Has the project given any evidence of being unreliable or not teustworthy?

Posting "this is informative, and unfortunate" as a comment to a video with a bunch of inflammatory accusations is giving credence to and expressing approval at the substance of it's content.

So no, it isn't as "simple" as the issue being only the literal content of that comment. The context matters.

As someone else pointed out, it's not just the comment. There's context you're either ignoring because it's inconvenient for you, or you don't know because you couldn't be bothered to learn more about it.

The video is harassment content, plain and simple. It's filled with disinformation and he lied about not using GrapheneOS moving forward. The developer was swatted multiple times, then when upset with Rossmann he tried to talk to him about his support for harassment content (the swatter was a fan), and instead of being a decent human being, Rossmann made a video of it while it was happening.

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