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KDE bans user calling out racism, antisemitism and misogyny but not the perpetrator. (awful.systems)
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During the AI policy discussion on https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/work_items/187 someone called a KDE contributor out for their bigotry. KDE banned the person calling them out and removed all the comments.

https://archive.ph/6YccJ#note_1648724 (no other archive available)

https://invent.kde.org/sweetluna (blocked user)

https://invent.kde.org/svin

I guess it's official. Fascism is allowed. Calling it out is not.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I noticed those comments were removed today. Cheers for finding the archive of them.

The turn KDE has taken is absolutely astonishing. I regret the donations I've made to them :(

Edit: they did ultimately ban the racist, though it's not a great look that the person exposing the racist was also banned.