Code of Conduct Violation

> Microsoft has had an especially close relationship with the Israeli military spanning decades

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-43...

Pretty rich to see people on that thread claim they'll boycott Zed over this, but they've got no problem using Microsoft's services to do said complaining.

Also from the Code of Conduct: Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

* ...personal or political attacks

* Public or private harassment

* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Wow. What a — well, I don't have polite words for this. I feel like I'm walking a fine line (WRT our own community guidelines) trying to say anything here that's actually worth saying, but I'll try.

> ...Code of Conduct says that the leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of religion and ethnicity. ... How can anyone feel like [this] means anything at all, when [a company that's partnered with someone who expressed negative views of a religion] is an investor?

There are so many leaps of logic required here that I find it hard to understand why complaints like this are ever taken seriously. The money didn't come from the other person, the other person's statements didn't address anyone in the "community", money is not speech, and people are anyway not responsible for the actions of their business partners. When Brendan Eich was being pilloried for his donations to anti-SSM lobbying organizations, were all employees morally obliged to resign from Mozilla?

The OP there is linking to a website called "genocide.vc" for supporting evidence and is engaged in highly contentious culture-war framing (that happens to be opposed to Maguire's) while in the middle of making a Code of Conduct complaint. If it were a comment on HN, I would flag it. If I were a Jew who contributed to the project, I would file my own complaint in response. (And I can already vividly imagine how Bryan Lunduke will describe this story.)

Codes of Conduct are not supposed to result in a project hosting political discussions where people say things like

> that’s a funny way of saying "I don’t care if my tax dollars are used to kill 50,000+ children"

and get any positive reception from anyone for doing so.

Codes of Conduct are specifically there so that people can feel like they can participate regardless of who they are.

Having people associate you with the mass murder of children, simply because they don't share your moral intuition (this was a response to someone critiquing Mill's contribution to classical liberalism), is not welcoming.