content: The problem with some of these recent “Code of Conduct” pushes is that “social justice” activists have used them as entryism to be able to punish people for holding opinions they don’t like or agree with, see for instance: http://contributor-covenant.org/ about the “pervasive cult of meritocracy in Open Source”. This “Code of Conduct” for instance was created by the same person that started bullshit over at Opal: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941  “The Contributor Covenant was created by Coraline Ada Ehmke in 2014 and is released under an MIT license. Handshake icon created by George Pechtol from The Noun Project.”  See here for more: http://where.coraline.codes/coraline_ehmke.pdf It’s basically a shakedown game for ideological control and shittest at the same time seeing if you blink, and seems to work this way:   Get offended by something someone in the Open Source community said (usually on Twitter or at an official event), demand they be removed or otherwise punished   Flood GitHub or similar with demands to remove said person and/or at least adopt a “Code of Conduct” to prevent such “despicable” behaviour in the future, which includes all Social media and official events   Once you socially shamed them enough and got a foot in the door push a self-formulated “Code of Conduct” on the project   Demand it be upheld and anyone that says anything you deem offensive be removed from the project, if it happens another time they can point to the “Code of Conduct” and ask the project to abide. A “safe space” has been created, they don’t particularly give a shit if great software engineers get pushed out for disagreeing or the project fails beyond this point, because said people don’t want to abide by Totalitarian ideology, after all “meritocracy” doesn’t matter and “inclusivity” takes precedence over anything else.   Meritocracy is generally a trigger-word for these people, they absolutely hate it. Just bring it up in conversation and they reveal themselves and their agenda: https://archive.is/Szf41#selection-2861.0-2863.255 http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug It’s a trojan horse that some people willingly let into their town because they think they are “helping” and are being “progressive”, but as they soon find out the soldiers hidden inside come out at almost any little provocation or “offense” taken to solidify their stranglehold and destroy anyone that opposes them, and said Code of Conducts are usually enforced unevenly according to the tenets of “punching up” (usually against evil “straight white males”) instead of “punching down” (women or anyone considered “diverse”).