I like this a lot. Even the passive acknowledgment that technology and engineering do not exist in a bubble exclusive from the real world is meaningful. I do think the call to action to invest in our communities matters.<p>I know I'm N=1, but I have increased respect for the Rust organization.
Not seeing anything similar on /r/rust, or the official forum. This twitter account barely tweets at all, it's like they want to send a message, but don't want to actually inconvenience anybody.
A judgement-free aside:<p>The information age intrinsically makes it harder for this kind of statements.<p>On almost all topics we are bounded to be ignorant of some important facets, and the sheer size of the internet means that many other will be ignorant/knowledgeable on different facet of any topic.<p>In a sense this means that most endorsements of public topics by an organization/individual will incur in a certain level of "what about these negative sides of that thing"; this happens especially if there was not a previous synchronizing pressure for that topic.<p>Once upon a time it was a lot easier for social clusters to be similarly ignorant/knowledgeable on any given topic.<p>As often happens with progress we lose something and we gain something.
>Rust believes that tech is and always will be political<p>Yeah, no thanks. And much less when you're taking a side. I mean, I know you're a Mozilla project after all, but eeek.
this make absolutely no sense. as one reply pointed out, are they going to shutdown their feed every time something happens? maybe i'm just too involved in AA, so i like the whole concept of "we have no opinions on outside issues". rust is doing the opposite of this. to me, if the individual core team members want to take stance and not tweet, that's fine, but the organization as a whole shouldn't.
> In acknowledgement that taking a stand against police brutality is more important than sharing tech knowledge, this account will pause tweeting until further notice. Feel free to email the core team at: core@rust-lang.org.<p>-- @rustlang
Python Software Foundation's Twitter account did the same. I don't know how many more made a stance, but I needed to learn Wagtail CMS and they too went dark on their website. Maybe not all tech is political, but open source, freedom being one of its foundations, sure is.<p>0. <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePSF/status/1267591714925133825" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ThePSF/status/1267591714925133825</a><p>1. <a href="https://wagtail.io/" rel="nofollow">https://wagtail.io/</a>
Top tweet reply Twitter fed me was on point -<p>Replying to @rustlang<p>"The world is bigger than just the USA."<p>There are a lot of problems in the world, Syria pops into mind or a billion people who can't fully feed their kids.<p>But they are not a viral Twitter sensation. Gotta be 'cool'
Non-violent protesters were getting killed by Hong Kong's police in broad daylight for the last few months. Were the Rust people not aware of them?
Not related to the topic but seeing this posted under my username this caused me a LOT of confusion until I counted the number of times the letter “A” occurred.
I know this will get accused of being whataboutism, but isn't it a bizarre sort of leftist chauvinism to make gestures like this about issues in ones own country in spite of similar things happening across the world on a weekly basis - especially for a project that touts itself as very international in scope?