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Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatene
by geofft 5y ago
Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportation_threat/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio...
> I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.
> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country. This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his – 'Fuck 学习强国', which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.
- Ygg2 5y agoWow. Muse Group went from questionable to shady as fuck in 0.01 seconds.
- antisol 5y ago:O . . . Wow. Just WOW. Here I was thinking I was being hyperbolic.
- Valmar 5y agoThat's easily among some of the most disgusting things you could threaten someone with.
- martimarkov 5y agoOn what grounds is this downvoted?
- antisol 5y agoPretty sure the grounds were "the troll factory muse group has hired finds this fact inconvenient"
- salawat 5y agoAin't life grand when getting into a kerfluffle over who gets to use sequences of 0's and 1's leads to potentially life destroying consequences. IP everybody! Not even once! If it's worth making, it's worth making public!