by whymauri on 6/1/20, 7:10 PM
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.
I know I'm N=1, but I have increased respect for the Rust organization.
by dx87 on 6/1/20, 7:26 PM
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.
by afiori on 6/1/20, 7:31 PM
A judgement-free aside:
The information age intrinsically makes it harder for this kind of statements.
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.
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.
Once upon a time it was a lot easier for social clusters to be similarly ignorant/knowledgeable on any given topic.
As often happens with progress we lose something and we gain something.
by bzb3 on 6/1/20, 11:49 PM
>Rust believes that tech is and always will be political
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.
by thrownaway954 on 6/1/20, 9:55 PM
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.
by frosted-flakes on 6/1/20, 7:20 PM
> 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.
-- @rustlang
by ASalazarMX on 6/2/20, 12:39 AM
by aaron695 on 6/1/20, 7:14 PM
Top tweet reply Twitter fed me was on point -
Replying to @rustlang
"The world is bigger than just the USA."
There are a lot of problems in the world, Syria pops into mind or a billion people who can't fully feed their kids.
But they are not a viral Twitter sensation. Gotta be 'cool'
by Shorel on 6/2/20, 5:42 PM
>Rust believes that tech is and always will be political
As long as it is about American politics. Shame.
by downerending on 6/1/20, 7:37 PM
I'm not even following the rationale. They're angry at Twitter? For what, exactly?
by noxer on 6/2/20, 9:58 AM
Stupid, whoever controls that account, please hand it over to someone else and use your personal account to post nothing.
by qbaqbaqba on 6/2/20, 3:37 PM
Americentrism.
by threatofrain on 6/1/20, 9:57 PM
> Rust believes that tech is and always will be political- take some time today to invest in your community.
by lake99 on 6/1/20, 7:19 PM
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?
by saaaaaam on 6/1/20, 7:18 PM
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.
by DC-3 on 6/1/20, 9:01 PM
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?
by jodrellblank on 6/1/20, 7:21 PM
On what platform will the further notice be given?
by RichardHeart on 6/1/20, 7:18 PM
Progress need not be stopped or crippled because something sucks somewhere. In fact, progress should be focused on, in spite of the suck.