On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, 13:50 Mark Wielaard, <m...@klomp.org> wrote: > RMS actively undermines those who try to make our community a little > bit more welcoming. Violating anti-harassment policies of > conferences. Even those from the FSF by claiming to be above those > policies because of his leadership position or using his position to > tell staff they cannot enforce such policies against others. Because > he is against enforcing any anti-harassment policy some GNU > mailinglist is currently being used to organize a doxing campaign > (publishing photos, address and calls to report to the local police > station to get her house raided and arrested) for simply saying the > same things we are discussing here now. > > I witnessed something similar recently when we had setup the > mailinglist to discuss improving governance of the GNU project. When a > female GNU (GCC) volunteer spoke up she got attacked and harassed. We > told the harassers that was totally unacceptable and blocked them from > sending more emails to the list. RMS arranged for those people to get > unblocked to continue their hate campaign on the public GNU list so > they could "defend him and the GNU project". That was followed by a > torrent of hate to the list making any discussion impossible and > making women feel like they were specifically targeted. He still > hasn't learned that his words and actions are dog whistles for > misogynists, transphobics and racists. This really has to stop. >
We even have a GNU maintainer* with no link to GCC sending abusive emails in this thread, because he feels such harassment is acceptable. * He is listed as maintainer on gnu.org despite the project having no public release and an empty repo. It looks like vapourware that only exists in his head, but he's still a proud "GNU maintainer". If that's who GNU welcomes, count me out.
