On 22/03/2020 04:18, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Friday, March 20, 2020 6:09:51 AM MST Ben Cotton wrote: >> This thread is off-topic and not in the spirit of our Friends >> foundation. Please refrain from further replies. >> >> -- >> Ben Cotton >> He / Him / His >> Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream >> Red Hat >> TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > > It was not in the spirit of our Friends foundation to take Daniel's blog off > the Fedora Planet. > FSFE censored my blog while I was still the fellowship representative, before I had decided to resign. When I wrote my resignation email, they kept it in a censorship queue until the next day deciding whether they would "allow" me resign or whether to tell everybody I was "expelled". In other words, they are small children who want to have the last word on everything. I feel the same pattern when somebody like Martin Langhoff engages in character assassination, posting a link to fake news and then the thread is shut down without challenging him. A few months after FSFE I went to the UN Forum on Business & Human Rights in Geneva. I related my experience there to free software with another blog[1] and a few hours later that blog post was censored from both Planet Debian: https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/censor_pocock.png and Planet Mozilla: https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/planet_mozilla_censorship.png /What type of organization censors a blog about human rights?/ This all happened after FSFE's Fellows[2] chose me as their representative in a ballot[3]. Coincidence? Why do free software organizations want to take our contributions but deny us the right to ask questions, publish blogs, vote or appoint representatives? Volunteers doing work without any rights starts to smell like modern day slavery. I feel it does belong on this list because the thread about being a non-responsive maintainer was started here with my name in the subject line. The stuff about the OSI board president's conflicts of interest is also relevant because the development that volunteers contribute here is governed[4] under licenses approved by FSF and OSI. Coincidentally, de Blanc worked for one and was elected president of the other. Another conflict of interest. Regards, Daniel 1. https://danielpocock.com/debian-human-rights-paradox/ 2. https://fsfellowship.eu/2018/09/08/who-were-the-fsfe-fellowship.html 3. https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_29119d29f759bbf8 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Overview _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
