Such is the state of the World these days that I'm doubting the value of even participating in discussions where somehow sensitive or actionable information could emerge, or open source information collated or innovated upon in such a way that will enable malicious intent. Yet leaving the information space scarcely seems like an option either (on general terms, hopefully not too much out of some subjective notion of self-worth here).
My impression is that over the last couple of decades at least, the emergence of sensitive and classified information in the public realm has in various cases been "active measures" (or "активные мероприятия") wherein whistleblowing, fora and other practices and institutions in established democracies have been misused as more or less plausible cover in causing damage to said societies via "leaks". As such rules about sensitive and classified information will not hinder determined actors but will at least increase awareness and hopefully make misuses more glaring and institutions, practices and fora more resilient and less likely to be co-opted in self-defeating practices and relationships.
You have a deputy administrator who works in the Russian aerospace industry. While the site tries to act like real world events and real world sides are irrelevant, they’re not.
overscan (PaulMM) said:
We also have moderators working in Western industry and Air Forces. Fail to see any relevance to anything regarding the site.
Resorting to the philosophical, I guess one represents the "Western" interpretation of "
Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru" while the other represents the "Buddhist" one. To be neutral and/or apolitical in the context of a functioning, human rights respecting democracy (a choice and a luxury, even) is not at all the same as acting as such in the human World at large (more often than not a more coerced state).
I'm generally supportive of not concentrating on what are deemed as externalities to the forum (at least in the raison d'être sections that are not designated as more generalist, e.g. "The Bar" as I understand it). Where things such as genocide, human rights violations and totalitarianism are undeniably, inextricably part of the context, allowing for factually recognizing these as extant, intentional and net negative phenomena would likely allow them to impinge less on this (or any) forum than enforcing a local semblance of indifference or ignorance.
But maybe I'm reading the pachyderm in the "foroom" wrong. I empathize with
@Bruno Anthony 's frustration on a general level (as far as I can discern it) and just how (at this point quite long) arcs of history themselves can bear on our endeavors, running fora and all. The forum's "HR policy" as it stands isn't determinative of (though it is a factor in) my situational awareness here as the site is open to the World regardless as to where the administrators hail from.
