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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Iv on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:50AM (#21492566)
I know neither their rules, nor what was said there. I can only tell you that systems exist that allow:

- hate speech to be objectively defined

- due process to exist in processing complaints

> "white men in tech ain't shit". Should this individual be allowed to participate in tech conferences?

All I can tell you is that it would probably be judged hate speech in France and fined if said publicly. I know nothing of the rules and penalties this specific place's CoC implements. And I'll be the first to say that it is problematic if the rules in the matter are not written.

But I am sure the tech world, through its typically clumsy approach of human affairs, will end up having enough jurisprudence to piece out a workable code.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by wott on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:21PM (#21494078)
> All I can tell you is that it would probably be judged hate speech in France and fined if said publicly.

Extremely unlikely. Members of the P.I.R. (black/arab racialist party) and other organisations who swim in the same waters have been spouting many many worse things. Or a few of the crazy chicks who took over the U.N.E.F. (student union) and have said stuff like "the whites should be gassed".

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Iv on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:19AM (#21496526)
Did anyone care to bring their case to court? IF they did, I am pretty sure they would be found guilty.