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The developers who acquired Audacity had previously threatened to have someone deported to China and tortured over their API. https://www.theregister.com/2021/0
by mehlmao 3y ago
The developers who acquired Audacity had previously threatened to have someone deported to China and tortured over their API.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportation_threat/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio...
- averageRoyalty 3y agoI did some basic digging and this is at best a misrepresentation[1]. The original email appears to indicate they intended to contact CCP authorities. The inference I took is that they believed the developer was in China. Later they stated that violation of law in Canada could result in revocation of visa. So "threated to have someone deported" is maybe a stretch, "tortuted" is pretty untrue. The github issue appears to show a pretty reasonable attempt by both parties to move forward. 1. https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335 https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...
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- mehlmao 3y agoMusegroup's head of strategy posted the following and removed it later after backlash: "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." Hard to take that as anything but a threat. My point stands that Musegroup has proven that they should not be trusted with any information about users.