> What’s the slippery slope here?
The slippery slope is that today RMS is the kook, ejected without due process or objective standards.
Tomorrow, you'll be the kook.
That's not, like, how arguments work? You don't just get to say "it's a slippery slope, it'll expand to include you, Q.E.D."
Parent asked what the slippery slope argument to be had here was, and aazaa responded with the answer to that question. Why are you confused?
I could already be fired for far less important reasons. Where’s the slope?
I think the purported slope is that currently you can be fired at the whim of your boss (who presumably knows you well), but in the future you might be fired at the whim of a blogger (who has never met you). You have only one boss to keep happy, which is stressful but substantially under your control. Giving equivalent power to myriad bloggers scares people because there is less accountability and more possibility of false accusations.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by journalctl on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:58AM
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I don’t know. I don’t say gross things about women and I still manage to have a job.
Millions of workers labor under threat of starvation just for standing up for themselves a little bit. Expressing a straightforward opinion like “it is illegal to work off the clock” or “a 30 minute lunch break is mandatory in this state” can be enough to provoke retaliation.
Why are people so eager to spend so much energy defending a guy who, at the very least, wrote a bunch of inappropriate things in a completely inappropriate place?
What’s the slippery slope here? “If a man can’t rant about the unfairness of statutory rape laws on a computer science mailing list, then....” I don’t know how that sentence is supposed to end.
There are so many more important things to worry about. A kook is losing his platform. He’ll have to shout into the void like the rest of us. Oh, the horror!