And here I am out of mod points.

At first reading something seemed off about the question, and I think you summed it up nicely.

To me it comes across a bit as the OP asking 'I need some vaguely authoritative sounding reasons for a sexy solution, look at my keywords and tell me what is "in" with that community'

No need to develop your own locking system, just use whatever logging functionality the server has.

*gasp* a sensible solution using readily available mature tools? *faints*

Or at minimal, enough ordinary people. Plenty on slashdot for that matter, lots of people in the middle class dislike human rights groups, well, lots of middle class white males hate them at least.

Nobody is taking protections away from them, but they do not need special protections tailored for them either.

Ahm, there is wide action in his support. They guy is getting a massive outpouring of support from the media and internet in general. It is not the only reaction, but it is pretty well represented because of, *gasp* free speech. Yes, in free speech the minority side actually gets to make their case, not just keep quite from bothering the poor oppressed WASPs who's right to be intolerant without repercussion must be maintained.

Though if we went down that legal road, we would essentially be making it illegal for people to quit when they do not like their new boss.

It is the old 'freedom from/freedom to' thing. When people feel safe and secure from discrimination they fight for the 'freedom to' and frame the fight as them being persecuted, while people actually being discriminated against tend to fight for 'freedom from'.

Depends on just how weak your group is. Years ago I knew several lesbians who, when outed, had trouble finding ANY work in their region. There was some ROTC kid going around making sure any business who hired them knew they were hiring a lesbian and they would immediately be fired. Kinda hard to have 'freedom' when you can not pay your rent.

meh, there is something to be said for some groups needing legal protections more then others, and in general people with wealth and power tend to have enough of their own resources and political power to take care of themselves and still come out on top.

It is already a long held precedent, it is simply unusual to see this kind of pressure work in this direction. Usually being a 'deviant' or covered by some moral panic can get you fired or pressured out of position, but a high profile position getting this kind of pressure on minority rights is kinda new.

Yeah, terrible headline. It pretty much comes down to 'well, if something similar but completely different in all of its actual details happened then it would likely violate the law!'

the problems are not technological in nature.

Youtube is, in many ways, an example of the opposite happening. They are the new 'middle man', not that differnt from dealing with a cable company. Sure the barrier to entry are lower and there is no subscription, but they still control what you can and can not see, not to mention how you see it.

Actually, I have seen offices "upgrade" their physical desks to newer styles as people complain how old fashioned their work area looks. "Working in some 70s reject office is hurting moral!".