Linus Torvalds, employee of Vaccine Passport company, yells at developer for having concerns about COVID vaccine
It wouldn’t be a day that ends with Y if something randomly controversial wasn’t occuring on the Linux Kernel Mailing list.
On Thursday, June 10th, 2021… A discussio was occuring regarding the Linux Kernel Summit… and making it an in person, remote, or “hybrid” event. One Linux kernel dev, Enrico Weigelt, posted the following:
“I know a lot of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn’t look quote natural). I’m one of them, as my whole family.”
In response, Linus Torvalds jumped in with the following:
“Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.
You don’t know what you are talking about, you don’t know what mRNA is, and you’re spreading idiotic lies. Maybe you do so unwittingly, because of bad education. Maybe you do so because you’ve talked to “experts” or watched youtube videos by charlatans that don’t know what they are talking about.
But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn’t going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me.”
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I get the feeling like Linus has an opinion!
Linus concluded:
“Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies.
And if you insist on believing in the crazy conspiracy theories, at least SHUT THE HELL UP about it on Linux kernel discussion lists.”
Now, I’m not going to go into if LInus is right. Or if Enrico is right. Or if neither are completely right.
What I will comment on is this:
All comments relating to COVID vaccines were then blocked by mailing list moderators with the following message:
“moderator hat on I’m requesting that all vaccine talk is restricted solely to how it would impact international travel to/from ksummit.”
This moderation was not applied to Linus’s rant, however. That was allowed.
Worth mentioning:
Linus Torvald’s employer, The Linux Foundation, is now in the business of making COVID vaccine passports. Any statement, by him, critical of a COVID vaccine would hurt the Linux Foundation’s new business endeavor.
That endeavor has been met with overwhelming praise from the Linux and Tech press. And zero criticism from the Tech Press… other than from yours truly. Likewise, you can expect Linus’s statement quoted above to be met with overwhelming praise — and, again, zero criticism — from the Tech Press.
What all of that means I will leave as an exercise for the reader.
Mozilla is a propaganda company, first and foremost, as is the Linux foundation. Here’s why: https://voxday.net/2021/10/18/the-ideas-they-perpetrate/