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Outside of this specific case, private platforms are free to moderate themselves as they wish. There are many other places to host code, including your own serv
by derac 4y ago
Outside of this specific case, private platforms are free to moderate themselves as they wish. There are many other places to host code, including your own server.
Edit: I did a bit of googling and didn't find evidence that the government told GitHub to do this. Please link if you have evidence ty.
- dopamean 4y agoYou're right. And in this case "as they wish" is actually "as the US government wishes." I'm not sure they have a choice here.
- derac 4y agoSource? Per the register: "The Register has asked GitHub to clarify its actions or cite the US government order naming these developers as SDNs. We've not heard back." This implies that they weren't told to do so by the government, but it's all speculation.
- jrm4 4y agoCorrect, and I suppose what I'm perhaps lamenting is the lack of "Okay, looks like Github is in some ways useless if we want to preserve code freedom, what should we build to fix this?"