Don't we have explicit reputation scores baked in already? Sure looks like it. Even the BFDL have lower thresholds of acceptance based on past behaviour and "reputation"
But I would agree with a sense this looks very like parody. Nobody is setting out to design free software to "other" the user, or exclude contributions because you are not a white cis male. Are there reactionaries in charge of some software suites? Sure. There's all kinds.
A reminder that William Shockley was an overt Eugenicist racist. Every gate on your computer owes a debt to the transistor, designed by a white supremacist. We'd have got there eventually of course, but we don't have time machines and we can't erase the past, or the path which got us here.
ai_critic•35m ago
stephenlf•32m ago
fadious•30m ago
djfergus•4m ago
>> “You don't want fascists benefiting from your code?”
> Then don't publish source.
> Background-check every user.
> Maintain a centralized approved-user registry.
> Monitor people's browsing.
> Use AI to detect unacceptable politics.
> Abolish encryption.
Seems like someone trying a reductio ad absurdum.
fadious•31m ago