Regardless of where you lived, or what your political stance, if you didn't support "open immigration" you were "morally repugnant and frankly stupid and counterproductive". And then the moderators defended him, and kept his post open.
Not only did they paint 50% of the US population as unwelcome on StackOverflow, they basically forced the rest of the globe to accept his politics or risk being removed from the platform. As surprising as this is to people in the US, but the rest of the world has a wide variety of political opinions that may not align with the now broadly exported Democrat/Republican duopoly.
In 2017, Joel made very clear that the only views permissible on StackOverflow were his - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...
Regardless of where you lived, or what your political stance, if you didn't support "open immigration" you were "morally repugnant and frankly stupid and counterproductive". And then the moderators defended him, and kept his post open.
Not only did they paint 50% of the US population as unwelcome on StackOverflow, they basically forced the rest of the globe to accept his politics or risk being removed from the platform. As surprising as this is to people in the US, but the rest of the world has a wide variety of political opinions that may not align with the now broadly exported Democrat/Republican duopoly.