> "The GNU Kind Communication is not wrong in its words, it's wrong in that it only addresses a tiny slither of the problems we have in the community"
> "In the [..] announcement, RMS explicitly states that diversity is not a goal of his. This is a mistake"
> "if people feel excluded, they will never join the community and thus we'll never see their contributions."
It ends with a call to "ignore" or "entirely rewrite the guidelines" and "adopt more comprehensive Codes of Conduct which provide guidelines on what behavior is acceptable, what behavior is not, and what steps the community will do in enforcing them" without addressing the points Stallman raised, such as "A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them. It is the heavy-handed way of teaching people to behave differently".
I don't have the exact quote but he's written that the reciprocal nature of the GPL only effect people who want to do bad things. That's how I feel about Codes of Conduct.
The freedom that the GPL protects is singular and explicit.
Codes of conduct are not similar in these aspects. They each define a unique list of "user protections" that chill speech.
I understand that ceasing a poisonous practice is only the first step in remedying the effects of that poisonous practice. But I guess I didn't take the "kind communication" guidelines as something that would by definition prevent further actions.