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Re:An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open sou... by staticassertion on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:15PM (#21723825)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-ze...

To act like nothing has changed under Trump is ignorant. To pretend that it would matter is disingenuous.

No administration is called out in this repository. Saying "Well, it's too late, because you didn't complain about it under the last administration" is meaningless.

Re:An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open sou... by squidsurfer on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:22PM (#21724558)
No, it is meaningful. It shows that the signatories are virtue signaling based on political animus, and dont care one bit for any supposed victims, severely hurting their credibility.
Re:An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open sou... by staticassertion on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:01PM (#21724914)
It's not meaningful.

a) It's not even true. I pointed to a literal policy for this administration, which has been absolutely central to the controversy.

b) Even if it were the case, your issue is with the media, not the protestors. If I find out tomorrow that there's a problem, it is not really important to me that the problem began under X or Y administration, but that it persists under the current one.

c) You claim simultaneously that the media is biased and only covering the topic now, but then somehow blame people for only learning about the issue and caring about it now. Your issue is with the media, and that's fine, but it's not relevant to this at all. If you want to put the media on blast go nuts, this topic has nothing to do with the media or this administration.