Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns
by em-bee on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:49PM
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what i find interesting is that i think this applies to public discourse in general. ideally, we should be able to solve ANY disagreement in private among those affected, without input from those who have no business being involved.
reality is that we have public discussions about issues that cause a lot of damage to those actually involved.
public discourse prevents people from fixing mistakes and clearing up misunderstandings. once a statement is public, it is effectively no longer possible to apologize for it because there will always be some people who reject the apology and discredit it, when they even have no involvement in the actual issue.
this is the problem we have with mass media that doesn't do much solve problems but has a strong influence in driving the negotiating parties apart.
there are issues that need to be discussed on a global level, but most of what we are actually discussing does not need to be public.
reality is that we have public discussions about issues that cause a lot of damage to those actually involved.
public discourse prevents people from fixing mistakes and clearing up misunderstandings. once a statement is public, it is effectively no longer possible to apologize for it because there will always be some people who reject the apology and discredit it, when they even have no involvement in the actual issue.
this is the problem we have with mass media that doesn't do much solve problems but has a strong influence in driving the negotiating parties apart.
there are issues that need to be discussed on a global level, but most of what we are actually discussing does not need to be public.