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Are political profiles that could possibly affect the participation of other users allowed in SO?
I came across a user's profile, expressing the profile owner's opinions on Religions, Chinese government's affairs. Different from expressing his opinions, this user wrote:
Why I'm doing this: in March 2015, my girlfriend's mother was kept 15 days in prison without trial or accusation
My goals: make the Great Firewall of China GFW block Stack Overflow pages where I have posted, in order to make Chinese programmers:
- mad and demand direct elections, freedom of speech and human rights
- talk to me, so I can gather pro-freedom contacts and better understand China: Twitter or Github.
- Public contact preferred, even if anonymous.
I am not sure if this kind of profile is appropriate to this community, hence the question.
I am neutral to political opinions, free will.
I am, however, against this kind of profiles because:
It's not related to programming. It's more like taking advantage of the question answered and the publicity of S/O to send out one's personal messages.
It might violate the community's model: Be Nice
Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.)
- It might violate the Terms of Service (under the Subscriber Content section).
Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party, (b) reveals any trade secret, unless Subscriber owns the trade secret or has the owner’s permission to post it, (c) infringes any intellectual property right of another or the privacy or publicity rights of another, (d) is libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing, hateful, offensive or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, (e) contains a virus, trojan horse, worm, time bomb or other computer programming routine or engine that is intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information, or (f) remains posted after Subscriber has been notified that such Subscriber Content violates any of sections (a) to (e) of this sentence.
- For the party that are offended, it might affect the participation of offended parties and as consequences, the quality of contents, the diversity of participators for this community.
Taking this profile as an example, I wasn't offended of any kind but I do think words like "共匪" or "共惨党" might be offensive to communists.
The goals of the profile, as stated, are to made the Chinese government to censor S/O and possibly block the IOs to S/O and to make unrelated Chinese professions mad. Which is possibly the worst idea I have ever heard over time.
I don't want to turn this question into a discussion on such profile but rather taking that profile as an example for seeking answers for a more general question.
