Hello, On Monday, May 29th, 2023 at 3:50 PM, Patrick Fitzgerald <patrickf@i-layer.com> wrote:
I'd just like to point out just about every group, organisation, and company has a terms of service document, which usually include a code of conduct terms.
That's the million flies argument. Where I live, only companies with ESG loans have them. Apparently the laws of my country are enough for the others.
This includes your email provider - Protonmail. Just in case you haven't read theirs -though you have certainly have agreed to them- they can found here: https://proton.me/legal/terms.
In particular I think point 4 is interesting:
4. Harassing, abusing, insulting, harming, defaming, slandering, disparaging, intimidating or discriminating someone based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, nationality or disability;
Is this some sort of threat to report me to Protonmail? Go ahead if you must. I'm sure you can construct some sort of case by quoting me out of context enough and adding sufficiently outraged commentary.
That doesn't sound "woke" to me. Just sensible.
Protecting everyone and providing them with an inclusive, safe, harassment, discrimination, insult etc. free environment is always the Trojan Horse the codices of conduct ride in on. And then they get abused to silence those who disagree with the tenets of the - unfortunately rather dominant - radical left wing ideology.
To quote my favourite film: "...the needs of the many outweigh needs of the few. Or the one."
I do not draw my philosophy from Star Trek. And well...if one bent and twisted these words enough one could justify a group of people eating the weakest among them to ensure survival of the group. I have a quote as well: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Hence the need for a code of conduct.
That is quite the leap of logical. I'm afraid I'm having a hard time following.
I could go on, but I've got code to write.
So do I, but with this constant background noise of politics getting ever louder, I find it hard to concentrate on that. It's probably easier for you. For me, the prevailing political winds are headwinds. Regards, An Anonymous Techie