> Here's the thing: not every member company is completely beholden to an authoritarian government. Only one is.
If you think this is an objectively a bad thing, you should probably compare the per capita excess mortality of China vs the US for 2020...
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The Rust community is very diverse and include people from all around the world, including a huge number of Chinese developers.
Not giving China a voice means that "negotiation" is not an option that China can choose when there is a dispute, forcing them to pick some other option instead.
If you really believe that China is super dangerous, forcing them out of the negotiation table is probably the single worst decision you can actually make.
I really hope you are not in favor of expelling China and all other countries you disagree with from the United Nations and similar policies, because that's how World War 3 starts...
>If you think this is an objectively a bad thing, you should probably compare the per capita excess mortality of China vs the US for 2020...
Authoritarian regimes are much better equipped than free societies to handle pandemics. That doesn't somehow excuse nor justify crimes against humanity at terrifying scale.
>The Rust community is very diverse and include people from all around the world, including a huge number of Chinese developers.
Including Chinese developers is great. Including a large tech company that has no choice but to act as an arm of its authoritarian government isn't. These are two very different things.
>Not giving China a voice means that "negotiation" is not an option that China can choose when there is a dispute, forcing them to pick some other option instead.
Generally speaking when large-scale atrocities occur, the concern isn't with giving the entity committing said atrocities a voice so much as it is things like international condemnation and exclusion until the abhorrent behavior ceases. Negotiating with and giving voice to authoritarian regimes simply enables them to act in bad faith. History is littered with examples of this. Atrocities become bargaining chips, and that is grotesque.
If you think this is an objectively a bad thing, you should probably compare the per capita excess mortality of China vs the US for 2020...
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The Rust community is very diverse and include people from all around the world, including a huge number of Chinese developers.
Not giving China a voice means that "negotiation" is not an option that China can choose when there is a dispute, forcing them to pick some other option instead.
If you really believe that China is super dangerous, forcing them out of the negotiation table is probably the single worst decision you can actually make.
I really hope you are not in favor of expelling China and all other countries you disagree with from the United Nations and similar policies, because that's how World War 3 starts...