Dealing With Demagogue in Free Software
People in coding communities or the Free Software community (subset of the former for the most part) come from different backgrounds, based on their upbringing, experiences, peers and so on. Getting Free Software geeks to get along requires a certain level of tolerance of those tho are... different. There are people who incite, people who betray, and people who try to "cheat" their way up by 'trashing' their peers or siccing trolls at them.
In Free Software circles this problem is not new. The means for allegedly tackling the issue (e.g. corporate CoCs) are fairly new. Some methods are effective. Some are destructive.
CoCs fall into the latter category, unless corporate capture is the goal (sharecropping).
Their aim is to give corporations (i.e. oligarchs who control large collectives of workers) more control over people they neither birthed nor ever employed, so it is basically a land grab sold to us all as "manners".
Who likes CoCs? The people who work for those corporations (i.e. oligarchs). Because they are fully aware that those CoCs are lopsided (in their own favour).
Having said that, not only corporations (i.e. oligarchs) engage in abusive, unaccountable policing. On the Internet, bullying can be conducted in social control media and sometimes this control is at the hands of rich bigots (like MElon) or mentally perturbed people who frequent sites like 4Chan.
How to deal with them? Look away. Don't participate. Don't spread their ideology and never participate in any of their projects. They will wither away on their own. █
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