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Because the person who makes it gets touchy on some things and started drama with someone or doxxed them or whatever type deal. It’s not like you can’t talk about it you just can’t use the word because he was going through and being weird about conversations about it. It’s nothing against him or them it’s just one of those developers being a unique type of person - which makes sense in the hyper privacy space.
So you'd ban the user for being a weirdo, not the discussion
He's certainly "unique".
I feel like he only gets away with it because people find the Dev of a privacy OS being incredibly paranoid somewhat reassuring...
He gets away with it because he makes a high quality OS that people want to use. I don't see it as much worse than e.g. using Linux when Torvalds is kind of an asshole.
"kind of an asshole" is a huge understatement. He's said some truly unforgivable things
What unforgivable things has he said?
Here’s a collection of some fun rants he’s had, I personally don’t think they’re unforgivable but people’s tolerance for crash outs varies.
There are many other rants not collected here
https://github.com/corollari/linusrants
There are other reasons to not use Linux, but Linux (+glibc +systemd +libinput...) is basically "the Unix" nowadays...
Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, "that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well." Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS' development. I can't keep up with all news on it, I'm not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.