ENS’ Brantly Millegan fired by DAO over controversial tweet

In a tweet posted successful 2016, Brantley Millegan, arsenic of now-former Director of Operations and DAO Steward of the ENS DAO, expressed arguable opinions connected the subjects of HBTQ persons, transgenderism, abortion, and more.

Millegan, a subordinate of the Catholic faith, and whose Twitter bio states “Catholic, husband, father”, has not shown immoderate regrets regarding the resurfaced five-year-old tweet, a presumption which has upset galore wrong the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) assemblage and beyond.

Brantly Millegans archetypal tweet.

Disappointed assemblage members

One of the assemblage members, Marcus Martínez, expresses successful the ENS DAO forum his disappointment with Millegan’s continued sturdy presumption successful the matter:

“Brantly.eth had an accidental to redeem himself connected Twitter’s nationalist sermon past night. He alternatively chose to treble down connected his caustic rhetoric. I judge that this is an maltreatment of powerfulness arsenic Community Steward and does not correspond the views, beliefs and values of the ENS Community. […] Should helium enactment successful his position, it would jeopardize the Community’s ngo for inclusivity and would tarnish the estimation of the enactment arsenic a whole.”

Millegans positions connected religions.

Shortly after, ENS Support Lead, “validator.eth” announced successful the aforesaid forum thread that Millegan had been removed from the relation of Community Steward. On Sunday, assemblage delegates from the ENS DAO voted to region Millegan from his presumption with a wide bulk voting successful favor, though some delegates warned astir the dangers of ‘Cancel Culture’ and the irony of a decentralized work centralizing astir the dependable of 1 person.

“After listening cautiously to the concerns of the stewards, delegates, and galore different assemblage members, I judge it is successful the champion involvement of ENS and the assemblage to region Brantly from his relation arsenic a Community Steward. […] I firmly judge that web3 and the Ethereum assemblage is simply a abstraction for inclusivity, kindness and respect and I anticipation that we tin each determination guardant unneurotic with these shared values.”

Millegans presumption with TNL “is nary longer tenable”

A fewer hours later, Nick Johnson, Lead developer astatine ENS, announced the removal of Millegan from the presumption of Director of Operations astatine True Names Limited (TNL), the nonprofit based successful the U.K. that funds and organizes improvement connected ENS.

“True Names Limited (TNL), the nonprofit that funds and organizes improvement connected @ensdomains, has terminated the declaration of Brantly Millegan effectual today. Brantly has been a valued squad subordinate of TNL for the past 3 years. However, arsenic a squad we felt that his presumption with TNL is nary longer tenable.”

“Many of you were wounded by Brantly’s comments implicit the past 24 hours, and we powerfully judge that ENS should beryllium an inclusive community. Going guardant we’ll proceed to bash everything we tin to guarantee that remains the case,” Johnson said successful a tweet.

As per Johnson’s announcement, Millegan volition stay a manager of the ENS Foundation, the real-world entity that represents the DAO. Johnson recommends that Millegan remains successful that presumption until a replacement is nominated and voted successful by the ENS DAO.

“Mainstream accepted Christian positions”

For a while, Millegans Twitter account seemed to person been suspended, but the relationship is backmost successful relation astatine the infinitesimal of writing, however, the archetypal tweet has been removed.

While galore radical person powerfully criticized Millegan for his opinion, though immoderate person besides shown Millegan support, Millegan himself does not look to regret the much than five-year-old tweet.  In a post connected Discord, helium reaffirmed his beliefs and said that helium is unfastened to moving with and being friends with a wide scope of people. He besides said that traditionally-minded Christians, Muslims and Jews should not beryllium excluded from Web 3.

Adam Cochran, crypto expert and General Partner astatine Cinneamhain Ventures, tried to deed Millegan with the Bible:

May person missed a fewer sections successful that book, similar the ones connected loving others:

Corinthians 13:4
Ephesians 4:32
Luke 6:35
Peter 3:8
Peter 4:8
Romans 12:10

Or similar Ephesians 4:29, which tells you to not talk unwholesomely.

Big diff betwixt religion and denouncing people.

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) February 6, 2022

Millegan answered that his presumption “is the mainstream accepted Christian positions” and thing but fringe.

“hey, not truly funny successful debating the theology close now, but what one judge is the mainstream accepted Christian positions held by the world’s largest religion. it’s not precisely fringe,” Millegan replies

On the marketplace broadside of the matter, the ENS token took a mild deed during the weekend, but it’s intolerable to accidental if this question is owed to the Millegan matter oregon conscionable wide marketplace movements. On Monday the ENS token is somewhat up 2.3% connected the week, trading astatine $20.5.

The ENS work maps hard-to-remember crypto wallet addresses to quality readable names specified arsenic cryptoslate.eth. ENS names are by themselves NFT tokens and tin beryllium traded connected unfastened markets.