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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by MrBuddyCasino on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:21AM (#21289092)
„ It's no secret that they are ideologically driven, although they kept it under lid until 2015 when they then flipped finger to their own rules and abused the platform for political causes.“

Anil Dash?

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by pinche2 on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:26AM (#21289117)
I'm not particular aware of Anil Dash's role in this, but what I had in mind was the following:

This is the post Joel Spolsky posted, breaking the user rules that stated among other things that political posts where not allowed:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/297859/can-stack-ov...

Then, a couple of years later -

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...

at the same time Sam Altman posted his (since I mentioned Y Combinator, but in fairness, at his own blog):

https://blog.samaltman.com/time-to-take-a-stand

These are political, ideological driven posts. Not everyone agrees with the political content; the point being, whether you do or not, this doesn't belong on a site such as SO.

And the international agenda I am refering to is in particular United Nations' agenda 2030 which is also rooted in ideology, and is what these companies are working with, directly or indirectly:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingo...

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by pjc50 on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:37AM (#21289636)
There's literally a politics.stackexchange now. Perhaps the real "loss of innocence" was the establishment of religion stackexchanges (possibly Judaism was first?), making politics and clashes inevitable.

> international agenda I am referring to is in particular United Nations' agenda 2030

This is conspiracist nonsense, attributing a bottom-up progressive movement to a top-down international organisation that actually isn't progressive at all (and is in fact dangerous to certain activists).

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by DiogenesKynikos on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:09PM (#21293126)
Your source [3] is not from the UN, and it's not about any UN body or program. It's written by an obscure outside group that wants to create a world parliament within the UN. It doesn't reflect on the UN in any way.
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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by DiogenesKynikos on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:20AM (#21290097)
The UN is a body established by the victors in WWII to allow them to negotiate about - instead of fighting out - their conflicts. It's not a world government, a Communist plot, or social justice experiment. It's a forum for the major powers to regularly talk to one another, and to jointly oversee various treaties and programs they set up (like UNRWA).

WWII and the invention of the atom bomb convinced (almost) everyone that major powers should talk rather than fighting one another head-on. That's why the UN exists.

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by icebraining on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:43AM (#21289411)
> the user rules that stated among other things that political posts where not allowed

Where were these rules? I've never seen such prohibition.

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by pinche2 on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:24AM (#21289573)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170608065329/https://stackover...

> "Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.)"

"etc." => politics, in this case back-ref "Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups" as not everyone agrees with the political message(s) posted, and the use of the platform users signed up on for entirely different purposes.

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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by cannonedhamster on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:54AM (#21290522)
That's not politics. That's basically just saying don't be a jerk and say something hurtful regardless of the reason. You seem to be making a leap of judgement that etc means don't post politics at all instead of don't attack someone for their political opinion and then you're mad that on a completely different personal site he says he's against some actions and that companies need to not be okay with this. He gives no actions he's planning on taking just says that they should discuss it. He doesn't demonize someone for how they voted or their political party and even cites people from the opposing party with whom he agrees. Your position comes soon appearing like you're chomping at the bit to make anything you disagree with somehow some evil conspiracy plot where a certain segment of the population you disagree with us out to get you. You're allowed say different things at home than at work. I doubt heavily his opinions at home are solely made into policy at work in a vacuum.
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Re:I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moder... by GauntletWizard on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:18AM (#21290686)
There are many things that are hurtful that are true.
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