Isn't this the reason why there's been such an uptick of talk about DHH lately?
The politics have been smouldering on forever. That governance event w/ Rubygems seems like a once in every twenty years kind of event. Unfortunately racist blog posts are like one every five seconds, you're kinda platforming somebody by trying to deplatform them for that. Like it or not 34% of people in the UK said they would vote for Reform
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/reform-uk-leads-12-pts-over-labo...
and you can't change that by finger wagging at those people, drop what you are doing and watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46LtbbZ5JE
... but it's too hard to have a war with the UK so you gotta fight some washed up rando.
Point the second: People are feeling emboldened to bypass rule of law and take matters into their own hands, up to and including taking other peoples' lives. Not only is this time fraught with political tension, it is also approaching the most crucial time of the year for ecommerce and online retailers - the holiday shopping season.
Put two and two together and it's not hard to see why people are scrambling to secure the software supply chain.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104910
[1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extension...
anyone so unhinged that they can't comprehend the value in not publicly attacking subsets of the population you might need to cooperate with, eventually becomes a liability for everyone.