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What Will Microsoft's GitHub Buy Mean for Controversial Code?
- swebs 8y agoThey don't mention how Github also censored the satirical "social justice warrior" programming language called C+= There was nothing illegal in the repo. No pressure from nation states. They simply didn't like who the repo was making fun of. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1618239/github-takes-down-satirical-c-plus-equality-language https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1618239/github-take...
- tluyben2 8y agoDid not see that before. How lame is that...
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoThis kind of thing was a reason why I wanted to switch away from GitHub long before Microsoft came on the scene. If anything, Microsoft's ownership might put an end to this nonsense. I never did switch away, however, strictly due to laziness.
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoWell, here's a funny story. After being kicked off of GitHub, the project was moved to GitLab, but on GitLab, there was nothing but a notice that the project had moved to Gitorious. There was nothing at all on Gitorious, and doing a Google seatch showed me that the project could be found... wait for it... once again on GitHub. https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality Either they repented of their views about censoring satire, they haven't noticed it's back, or they think it's a real thing. <shrug>
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoI think the maker of xbill is safe. The game was last updated in 2002 and the page promises anonymous CVS access coming "soon".
- rurban 8y agoSo wired jumps on the pro-censorship waggon, to suppress repos on pure moral grounds. Code that could be used to create deepfakes needs to be censored by Microsoft. Oh my. Directly jumping into the Köhntoppsche Idiotenfalle