@paulfree14 I think it's irrelevant if Wil is really a transphobe or not. A marginalized group feels threatened by him being here. So instances that want to feel trans people at home, have the right to do that. But I don't think he has to leave Mastodon.
*Ethiopia: Dutch Company Using Scientific Jargon to Avoid Teff Patent Right Controversy*
""For someone from Europe, in a different continent, to come and say we patented teff and the copyright is ours" an Ethiopian Kassahun Gebrehana, owner of the Little Addis Café in Maboneng, Johannesburg, shakes his head […] "Have they been eating it for centuries? We have.""
**Ethiopië vecht patent van Nederlanders op graansoort teff aan**
"5000 jaar wordt het al geteeld in Ethiopië, maar twee Drentse landbouwkundigen hebben patent op het verwerken ervan: de graansoort teff. In het Westen wordt de graansoort steeds populairder. Ethiopiërs krijgen alleen door het patent nauwelijks de kans om producten voor de export te maken. Daarom stapt de Ethiopische regering naar het Arb…"
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