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> GitHub is, in my opinion, an "ethical" proprietary software company, if such thing can exist If that were true, they would not have embarked upon a Thought P
by gspetr 11y ago
> GitHub is, in my opinion, an "ethical" proprietary software company, if such thing can exist
If that were true, they would not have embarked upon a Thought Police crusade like this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
"Github threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'"
- k__ 11y agoMaybe the use of such words increases toxicity by 250%?
- stonogo 11y agoYou're not doing anyone any favors by assuming 'toxicity' is a measurable quantity or that you've sufficiently developed a Theory of Toxicity such that you can ascribe relative values to specific words.
- k__ 11y agoOh no, I didn't developed this "Theory of Toxicity", Riot Games did.
- awqrre 11y agoDo you really think it affects Github as a hole and not just a single repo?
- morgante 11y agoThe fact that they bother to go on crusades like that affirms to me that GitHub is indeed operating according to an "ethical" framework—just not one I share.