Forget about immutability, decentralization abd all the other buzzwords that most crypto projects like to stamp on their front page as a measure of how crypto their crypto is, because if it's not crypto enough, then crypto bros won't buy into it.
I mean, you get the point.
One thing I appreciate of the Hive ecosystem is that anyone can talk about pretty much anything, and there's no way anyone can censor you. They might try to silence you or shame you for your way of thinking, but in the end you can do and write whatever you want.
Cancel culture, for those who have no idea what I am talking about, is "Right wing device used to delegitimize concerns of racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry as being nothing more than jokes. There is a way to joke about the absurdity of bigotry; there is also a way to out yourself as a racist. " but that is a biased definition, and I couldn't find an impartial definition because I used Google to find it, so just let me paraphrase the real definition.
Cancel culture is when you get fired from your job, shunned away from society, lose sponsorships or just get socially called out because of some remarks or statements you made in the past. These statements, which are part of your freedom of speech, made someone angry. These angry people take the topic into social media and begin a campaign to socially force every entity publicly related to you to drop any sort of relationship they may have with you.
As simple as that. Imagine I that 8 years ago I tweeted that I don't like Polish people, and today a social justice warrior found out about the tweet, and wants everyone who votes on mi Hive posts to stop doing so because they would be supporting the propagation of hate propaganda... - This is an exaggerated example, but you get the point.
Cancel Culture gets ahold of Ethereum
One of the Chadest moves ever is to ignore the Twitter mobs and the SJW's demands when it comes to cancel culture. They have as much power as we decide to give them, and to actually comply with their crazy demands is to succumb into a loud minority who's got nothing to do all day.
But I guess Ethereum is not as Chad as I though they were.
Ethereum Name Service Nonprofit terminates Brantly Millegan's contract over hate Tweets.
Granted, this company does not represent what the Ethereum Blockchain stands for, but it is large and popular enough to make the headlines and damn, if this doesn't shout how bad this is for a main dapp built in the Eth blockchain, then I don't know what can be good.
Millegan's Tweets were indeed pretty fringe for some mindsets, stating that homosexual acts were evil, there's no such things as transgenderism, abortion is murder, and contraception, masturbation, and pornography are a “perversion.” But if you ask me, that's just freedom of speech.
I could say that pedophilia is a mind sickness and that would be freedom of speech, but since it is trendy to defend the LGBT+ community and mostly used to cancel people who don't think like them, these statements costed Millegan his position(s).
And don't even get me started, I am not defending his statements, I am defending his freedom of state whatever he wants to state. Technology has no political affiliations - despite what Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Netflix and many more want you to believe, and act as such.
The only positive thing I see from this whole issue is that apparently Brantly Millegan got fired after a community vote was held and the majority decided to terminate his contract.
I mean, at least they are decentralized, right?
Is this Good or bad for web3.0?
In my opinion, any political affiliations, social media remarks, personal life and whatnot shouldn't affect nor effect your professional life.
Remember how being gay was enough to get you fired 40 years ago? Well, being catholic is enough to get you fired today in case you express your religion's beliefs in social media.
Both situations are wrong in my opinion. Letting cancel culture reach web3.0 when we are supposedly everything web2.0 is not, can mean nothing but trouble.
This dude's job was to get companies to get an Ethereum Name Service account with them, so basically he had to convince Netflix or Amazon to get a netflix.eth address. Having such a public position where the people's opinion of you matters, you can't risk being that stupid on Twitter, especially knowing how the mob culture works.
This was bound to happen, no company wants a fringe working for them, I get that, and there are some remarks that should stay within our homes and with our personal circle, but if they leave our inner circle, they shouldn't be the cause for anyone to lose their job, social position and much more.