> For more than 16 years, Brendan fought for openness and freedom on the web, and led many of the people who built that open and free web. This week, in a senseless, vicious convulsion, the web turned on him.
these things worry me. especially the latter. it worries me, because regardless of your view on whether he was a bigot or not, brendan protected the open web. his views on that matter were clear, and had a track record. we could have had a powerful, a strong ally, with clear principles. if anything his track showed that he would not let personal opinions(which btw WE DO NOT KNOW AT ALL based on one data point) get in the way of performing that duty.
I think we lost an ally. A very important ally by the way. Someone care to explain why someone would read a whole list of donations just to throw dirt at him?
the quotes are from the linked article in the article:
https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2
edit: there are some other highlights from that article which i removed from my post to avoid common dissent.