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Suicide after being canceled

mardi 1 juin 2021 à 02:00

A promising choreographer killed himself after he was canceled in response to unsubstantiated accusations of some sort of sexual wrongdoing.

Although an investigation found no indication the accusations were valid, institutions proceeded with the cancellation anyway. The decision to stop performing his work, the fact that there was no way he could clear his name or ever be able to practice his art again, must have made him feel he was as good as dead already, his art already buried.

A few developers of useful free software have been convicted of grave crimes, even murder. (With the large number of contributors, by chance we must expect this.) We disapprove of murder, but we don't reject their code on that account.