On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:52 AM Jeffrey Cliff jeffrey.cliff@gmail.com wrote:
I hope the rest of you out there [...] might consider joining me.
F/LOSS is bigger than any one person, and we should demand a higher standard of ethical behavior from our leaders than the average person. The individual you mention has repeatedly declined to alter behavior to stop abusing and alienating women and others, which is a failure to meet a bare minimum bar that I would demand from my most entry-level hire.
It's regrettable that you would come to such an illogical conclusion. Since you don't give a fingerprint for your former exit, it's hard to say how much bandwidth will be necessary to offset what you've done, but I'll commit to putting in the work to add an exit that meets or exceeds the two that we currently maintain within the budget year, a year in which our budget has been mandated to contract by 7.5%.
To others reading this: Jeffrey does not speak for Tor or for F/LOSS. There are many of us working to make F/LOSS more inclusive and welcoming, and I hope you will reflect on whether the future will be better if you join in collective action with those who "Believe in the necessity of digital autonomy and the powerful role user freedom plays in protecting our fundamental human rights," or reject that community in favor of the veneration of an individual whose behavior undermines that work.
Sincerely,