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Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM

posted by takyon on Monday March 27 2017, @10:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the drupal-gored dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert expelled Larry "Crell" Garfield from the Drupal community (archive) for his involvement in the BDSM community. Garfield claims this was done at the demand of Drupal Security team member Klaus "klausi" Purer and unknown others secretly pressuring Drupal leadership to have him removed for his private sex life.

takyon: From Larry's response:

I am involved in two such communities, specifically the BDSM community and the Gorean (Gor) community. The former is by far the larger of the two and more varied, although I spend more of my time and activity in the Gorean community. It's a small community, and sadly much of what is found online about it is utter crap, just as most in the BDSM community find the "50 Shades" representation of BDSM to be harmfully misleading. The Gorean subculture is inspired by a science-fiction book series written from the 1960s onward to today, and predicated on a strong sense of personal honor, integrity, and community. It also practices consensual Master/slave relationships, and has a strong gender bias toward male-Dom/female-sub relationships, but that is not the cornerstone of Gorean culture. There are other groups that are biased the other way, or have no gender bias. There are even groups in Chicago (where I live) that have regular "fem-dom" parties. To each their own.

It's the same Gor that was adapted into two films, one of which appeared on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 28 2017, @12:19AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @12:19AM (#484945) Journal

    Either the free market is free, so companies can hire and fire at will, or regulation is needed.
    "You can't fire (or not hire) based on skin colour, repigion, etc etc"
    "You can't hire ( " ) based on sexual preferences"
    ..
    Where does it stop?
    For a true "small governement" proponent, step one: free to hire, fire, descriminate, exploit, at will. Free means employees can go elsewhere, right?
    Companies can also collude, pollute, avoid tax (tax is theft, after all)
    Some regulation? Just a little bit pregnant?

    More on topic, Drupal deserves to shrivel up and blow away.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 28 2017, @12:40AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 28 2017, @12:40AM (#484960) Journal
    Ok, not really seeing the point of the post. "Small government" means some government. So they already grant the need for regulation and taxes which deals with most of your concerns. And the Drupal situation indicates that low barrier to entry (a thing helped by the small government approach) is a counter to irrational discrimination in hiring and public association.