Phoronix Seems to be Trying to Kill Discussion About "Asahi Lina" and the Anti-Torvalds Brigade
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So there's this new article in Phoronix:
Try to check the comments and get:
All the other comments (forum threads) are visible and fully open to all.
Our informed guess is that by reporting this news Phoronix got caught up in flamewars that divide and fracture the community.
In the kernel, Rust has been another such destabilising force, often connected to Microsoft. █
Update: Judging by external (to the site) comments (already "[flagged]" i.e. censored) and some others [1 2], our initial guess was correct:
Notice how the site receives defunding threats for not censoring comments:
