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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[–] 41 points 5 days ago (1 child)

damn kde is really attempting a lose-all-respect% speedrun WR huh

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago

    It's surreal seeing the internet pivot 180-degrees to full blown harboring bigotry.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    @Kiriko oh fucking boy

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  • Another one...

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    Welp, that is another nail in the coffin for KDE. I don't want to use a DE that protects fascist creeps; even more motivation to change to a WM and continue my learning journey so I can build my own WM that I can guarantee will be free from LLM assisted code.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago*

    David sure called this one. O_o

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Welp, both blocked now. For some reason both. And the entire work item removed... Update the post maybe?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago*

    Looks like they switched the entire proposal thread to private, it can no longer be viewed.

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  • [+] -9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Glad to see the losers in this thread getting upset they can't control others.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I'm not seeing where svin is linked to bee_fumo. Can someone point out where they admited those are their tweets?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    bee_fumo and Svin share the same avatar, and Svin's response saying they know who in that thread like their X posts, and they later edited that post to this (which is still viewable/hasn't been removed):

    "You must be a fan of mine trolling from X" is admission that they are the same account.

    And further down responded with this:

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  • [+] -6 points 5 days ago* (6 children)

    Who exactly is this “svin” person? And how do we know that the X account in question belongs to svin?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    also, how do we know that they meant to be bigoted when they typed those words in that order? Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? That’s what you sound like

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I don't think there's any question that the words are bigoted.

    But I see very little evidence that they belong to svin, nor that svin has any significant influence in the KDE project.

    Clarification would be appreciated.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    The guy admits that those tweets are his in the thread. The influence is not substantial to the problem here

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I see.

    Well, I suppose this is all moot anyway. With KDE now planning to start spying on users to train AI models https://windowsforum.com/news/kde-plasma-kadai-is-a-proposal-not-an-ai-desktop.444963/ it seems we all need to abandon ship regardless.

    What will we use next?

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  • [+] -6 points 5 days ago (3 children)