Our Sincerest Apologies

Wait, I don't get it... The apology mentions an article by "Audrey Watters", which is the article mentioned by your parent [1]. However, you mention another article [2], which was apparently "more upsetting" (personally, I see both articles as basically saying people should not be getting death threats), written by "Georgina Young". So which one is it? Or maybe both, or the mention of a controversial topic itself?

Well, and there you have exactly why this topic is so toxic. Everyone is so convinced they're right that they're more interested in digging in and painting caricatures of each other than actually having a discussion.

At this point, there's no way for anything constructive to happen with the valid concerns either side of this has because all the focus is on the worst elements of all involved.

1) Mozilla's stated mission is an Open Web. Any society has culture, and technology certainly does. Deciding not to talk about culture is a cultural choice.

2) Ignoring GamerGate is basically tacit approval. It's a banner used to harass people over the flimsiest and stupidest of reasons.

You can stick your fingers in your ears and ignore it if you want. That's kind of a shitty move but ultimately your prerogative. But to say that nobody should talk about it because you don't want to hear about it? Who says that's your decision to make?

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Ignoring harassment of others doesn't make it go away. In fact all it does is allow harassment to go unchallenged.

I don't expect people to go actively confront people on whether they think gamergate is dumb or not, but if your position is "i don't want to talk about it" or "i don't know, maybe both sides have good points" then you need to reexamine what you think living together what other human beings means.

Gamergate is a fucking stupid reason to harass anybody. Anybody who is neutral or pro-gamergate needs to contend with that fact.

> This is something which HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH.

THIS. You get my upvote.

This is what is wrong with Mozilla and it was exposed for all to see when they forced Brendan Eich out over a political donation he made years ago.

Too many people at Mozilla are spending their time as social activists instead of working on technology. They are bringing their own personal beliefs to work and in the process ruining Mozilla.

Perhaps the first line of the employee handbook should read: "Open Web" != "Social Justice".

When it reaches the point where death threats are being issued against people, I personally do want to hear about Gamergate stuff.

Mozilla takes editorial responsibility for everything on Open Standard (which is why a lot of people internally thought OS was a terrible idea), and @firefox just tweeted the new article approvingly.

Why? Do you genuinely believe that tech is purely meritocratic?