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GitHub should try to enable some sort of toggled anonymous mode for select repos, while users should make their FOSS/social identities less obvious or decoupled

GitHub should try to enable some sort of toggled anonymous mode for select repos, while users should make their FOSS/social identities less obvious or decoupled if their employers aren't that friendly with such clauses. With remote work becoming more pervasive, employees should really not be doing any personal things on work computers because their traffic is definitely going to be analysed by someone or some system. Just a general reminder as well - Companies/Govt's would absolutely love for GitHub/Gitlab or any social platform to require ID card verification for users if that was on the table.

gmueckl 5y ago
Such an anonymous mode would be damaging for GitHub because it needs to stay friendly with its commercial and corporate customers. Besides, such a mode only provides obfuscation, but no legal protection at all. In fact, lawyers would turn it around and claim that using that mode showed that the owner of a repo was aware that what they were doing was wrong. Your idea would have a better chance of success as a separate platform dedicated to anonymous code hosting. But that in turn would likely attract bad actors, as usual.
- wruza 5y ago
  lawyers would turn it around and claim that using that mode showed that the owner of a repo was aware that what they were doing was wrong Can’t you turn it around and claim that it was done to reduce the possibility of debating with idiots who like to unreasonably turn things around by blah blahing all possible and impossible versions out of thin air?
- DarthNebo 5y ago
  I meant someway for the repo to exist without coming under a specific individual, like an organisation would make more sense instead of having repos under your public profile. But then again the user has to be careful with their email addresses with every commit.

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GitHub should try to enable some sort of toggled anonymous mode for select repos, while users should make their FOSS/social identities less obvious or decoupled

by DarthNebo 5y ago

gmueckl 5y ago
Such an anonymous mode would be damaging for GitHub because it needs to stay friendly with its commercial and corporate customers. Besides, such a mode only provides obfuscation, but no legal protection at all. In fact, lawyers would turn it around and claim that using that mode showed that the owner of a repo was aware that what they were doing was wrong. Your idea would have a better chance of success as a separate platform dedicated to anonymous code hosting. But that in turn would likely attract bad actors, as usual.
- wruza 5y ago
  lawyers would turn it around and claim that using that mode showed that the owner of a repo was aware that what they were doing was wrong Can’t you turn it around and claim that it was done to reduce the possibility of debating with idiots who like to unreasonably turn things around by blah blahing all possible and impossible versions out of thin air?
- DarthNebo 5y ago
  I meant someway for the repo to exist without coming under a specific individual, like an organisation would make more sense instead of having repos under your public profile. But then again the user has to be careful with their email addresses with every commit.