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Re:Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL ... by zahlman on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:57PM (#41286229)
While I've generally not been especially fond of the author's sensationalized approach to content, nor do I necessarily agree with the political bias therein, I have certainly found it to be generally honest to a standard not reached by many other news bloggers. The only real factual issue I had this with particular piece is that it inconsistently refers to the 3-month suspension as a "ban".

As another commenter said, the cherry-picking is explicit in the article. But I'm writing more to assure you - as someone who was personally caught up in the situation - that the other points offered are about equally laughable. Some of them are hard to imagine as problematic even as stated; some of them appear to be multiple points referring to the same incident (e.g. "Use of potentially offensive terms, even when self-censored or alluded to indirectly." appears to also be about the SNL skit case - the point of referring to that skit was to clue the reader in to the self-censored word); and the rest - well, there are clear candidates for what incidents they have in mind, and it's simply absurd to frame them as their list does.

Unfortunately, a significant amount of the relevant forum content has now been hidden from the public eye (including many of my own posts, and posts where Mr. Peters defended me). However, archives certainly exist - I saved my own posts (and have been planning to release them for nearly a month now, and am about to do so), and it's possible to use the Python Discourse forum in "mailing list" mode, so there will be people out there with their own private copies in their email clients.

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