disabling HSTS

disabling HSTS

Can I go a bit meta? I'm not sure articles diverging from the open source orthodoxy are a great idea for LWN (but see below).

Sure, but then we're deep into off-topic territory, and you're making me want an article about journalism itself, even though I just started here. ;)

As a new contributor here, I understand what you are talking about, but I identify it more with my own nature than LWN itself: I assume certain topics are off the table, and just self censor, so far. I have yet to come across direct editorial interference in my work, in general. The only exception is one case where I have made a broad social statement that was for me a basic axiom ("large corporations are bad", more or less) but that for the general public may not be a given fact. Keeping that argument in place would have required an elaborate rationalization of the argument, which defeated its purpose: it was supposed to be an argument, not an axiom. :) The trick is that controversial topics are, by nature, harder to argue than well-established positions, which is why you are going to have trouble finding journalists argue those correctly.

Nevertheless, I am, generally, confident that I will be able to bring controversial topics here - and I believe I did a few times already. As a journalist, however, your duty is not to take sides but to reflect on a discussion or situation that is already happening between different parties. Sure, there are opinion pieces to be made, but even those, I feel, are stronger when they are backed by strong arguments. In that context, your comment is even more interesting because it brings nice sound bites I can quote in an article while keeping critical distance. ;)

And as pabs said, there's a "Write for us" button on the left column, try it out and be the media.