Roberto C. Sánchez <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:29:12PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 07:53:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> > Can we have a clear statement of what "directly affects people"? >> >> for those having lost people due to covid, hearing someone say >> it's a hoax, is definitly painful. and this affects Debian directly: >> >> so far we know about one dead DM (yes, Debian Maintainer) and personally I >> know several suffering from long covid. >> >> surprise: you're not invisble when you close your eyes. >> > Why don't you ask me about the people in my life who have been harmed by > and who I've lost to communist and/or socialist tyranny? Nobody is saying that "since X has harmed people, we cannot talk about X" (or that "if X has harmed people, we must talked about X", for that matter). The issue is that a project member used the project to spread lies/disinformation/falsehoods/conspiracies about X being a hoax. I'm sorry that people in your life have been harmed by a different X, but as long as Debian members aren't trying to tell you that that X is a hoax, I don't see how the topics are even remotely related. > We clearly have a politically biased process when it comes to what > behaviors/words/thoughts are being policed. I'm not even asking for an > unbiased treatment of everyone (though that would be ideal). What I am > asking for is that we have a clear statement of the bias that exists so > that people who are concerned about being affected these policies have > an opportunity to know beforehand. I for one am proud that the project is biased in favor of the best scientific consensus and evidence at hand, i.e. in favor of the best tools that we as a species have at our disposal to understand what is *true* in the physical world. Biased in favor of the truth, if you will. -- Gard
