Complaint by fititnt about communities:br moderator

I got curious and i tried to make sense of it:

  • So, you want to complaint about Moderator in BR because of conflict of interest due to his employment/affiliation with HOTUS?
  • The mod is trying to influence others to hide content that contains information about a proto-working group that could be illegal.
  • You are saying that HOTUS can/should not operate legally in Brazil? And it may legally be problematic if it does operate?
  • And the wiki-page got an edit war? Althouth i don’t understand why?

These are the points i was able to take out of this? Is this correct?

Conflict of interest
Well, if the moderator is an employee at HOTUS it should be mentioned on the profile page if the work in OSM they do is in name of HOTUS. If its ‚just‘ private, its fine imo.
We have a moderator in our crew that is an employee of an in osm active company as well. Not a problem by default.

Hiding information and suggestings other to do as well
The post Mapeamento Aberto para Gestão de Riscos - reunião para conversar sobre o assunto - #30 by EvertonBortolini translates for me with deepl to „@fititnt For ethical reasons regarding privacy, I advise you to contact people to ask for their emails and ask for their permission to send messages to them.“ And thats a perfectly fine and normal request and i would do the same if(!) there are private names mentioned.

I translated the whole post with deepl and i could not find any names mentioned. The post was not edited as well. So this warning seems to me a bit out of place.

So, i’m getting out of this is the following:
You have a problem with what HOTUS is doing in brazil and because the moderator seems to be affiliated somehow, there is a problem as well?

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