That's not actually related to my point though. This is more like:
First they tweeted offensive things about women, and I made sure that thing they tweeted is now the only thing we talk about.
Then we couldn't talk about all the women dying of not getting abortions on time because we're too busy talking about tweets.
Imagine if there was a hack so bad that it caused everyone to become unable to develop in C and C++.
Classic "let's just make the cure worse than the disease" mindset among security enthusiasts.
Politically-motivated tea tax, what could go wrong?
Sunk cost fallacy is definitely a subtype, but I'm going for I guess the more general concept of an idea that becomes more popular the worse it does
Yes I do think it was championed by conservative people. And if that statement pisses anyone off, my evidence is that Fannin County GA, where this took place, voted 82% for Trump. It's almost as if the whole "government overreach" thing is just empty marketing for policies that make rich people richer...