I don’t see bad faith, in the sense that @jakobnissen would be misrepresenting the views of a certain FOSS sub-culture. He is not ascribing to this sub-culture positions they do not hold. What he is doing is characterizing those positions in somewhat strong language as “insane” and “antisocial” – in his opinion (which I’d be inclined to share to some extent, even if not to the fullest extent).
There is nothing wrong with the expectation of privacy… which is what this proposal is trying to provide. That is not the same as insisting on absolute privacy (whatever that can mean in any coherent sense). As with most issues, any position that is absolute is almost guaranteed to be deeply misguided, and likely (hopefully) held by a fringe but sometimes very vocal minority. I find it useful to call out such misguided positions, so as not to let them override what is a strong consensus (based on “likes” in this thread) on a more nuanced position. Maybe the language to do that here was a bit stronger than absolutely necessary, but, as far as
goes: Even the strongly worded characterization of these dissenting user’s positions seems like a far cry from “toxic” to me. This is not a situation where a group of dissenters is hounded or harassed, but merely is receiving some strong pushback on particular positions, directly relevant to the topic in this thread. I would recall (and personally endorse)
which is a direct invitation to remain, even if it means receiving pushback on certain ideas in threads such as this. I would hope that there is plenty of common ground in other areas and threads on this site that such a disagreement should not reasonably drive anyone away.