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John Gruber
@gruber.foo

Have you considered that this is just a name-calling rant that doesn’t bring any actual receipts? And in fact omits the ones he alludes to? Actual link to the referenced Verge story, and actual quoted text: https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

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Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social

I do sort of want to come in here and say that DHH very very definitely did write a long piece talking about how London wasn’t the city he remembered, that it had been taken over by immigrants and that Tommy Robinson was fighting back against it.

Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social

Pretty much any Briton who isn’t part of the far right and who knows anything about Tommy Robinson knows the man is a racist far right thug with views extremely close to simple Nazism. The man was a member of the English Defence League, a far right organization built on football hooliganism.

Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social

Among other things, he was convicted of various crimes including threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour at football games, breaking bail conditions to go on far right marches, was convicted of common assault after headbutting someone. There’s a vast amount of background on this man…

Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social

Okay, sorry - I didn’t see this message while I was collating background on Robinson. I guess I just think it’s not unreasonable to think anyone who works with or supports a DHH backed project is either acting VERY foolishly, supports his views or simply doesn’t care about them.

John Gruber
@gruber.foo

I do think it’s fine that they’re supporting Omarchy. But here I’m simply pointing out that this post by Ottenheimer grossly distorts the cited message on 1Password’s company Slack.