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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Wed, 29 July 2020 12:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
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Stewart Bryant wrote:

> I would let authors express their thoughts as they think best, and
> leave the decision of what words to rephrase with the RFC Editors.

Never make the RFC editors the dictators.

The situation is already bad enough that employees of twitter
can not enjoy freedom of speech to say publicly that ban on
"blacklist" or "master/slave" is wrong without fear of losing
their job.

						Masataka Ohta

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