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.
Open source, where anyone can compile it and use it as they want must be destroyed. It's not open when the "openness" is used against you. We must be in charge, we must be those who decide who can use the fruit of our work.
I admit it won't be easy or nice, but it's necessary. We need to background check everyone. Every user of our work. Get back to the roots. You allow your friend to use your code and your work. You allow trusted people only. It will still be free to use in terms of money, not free in the terms it's for everyone. Because "free speech" in only a tool to inject fascism to our society. Free as in "free beer" not free as in "bring your fascism"
We will need centralized registry of all users, which would have another benefit in driving corporations out. Are you from Amazon? Supporting zionist genocide in Palestine? Sorry, you are not welcome here, you are not "free" to use our code.
Assuming that this isn't a setup, this article and this author and this sentiment exactly validates the fears of the "keep politics out of open source" people. This is where it leads, taken to its logical conclusion, if you don't do so.>> “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.