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> tl;dr: Russian law enforcement required GitHub to block certain content in Russia. GitHub has complied and put up a list of the blocked URLs in this repo. I

by gioele 12y ago

> tl;dr: Russian law enforcement required GitHub to block certain content in Russia. GitHub has complied and put up a list of the blocked URLs in this repo. I suppose we will soon learn what is the intersection of all free spech laws of the world. Should the original Wolfenstein 3d images be released as Creative Commons and put up in a GitHub repository, will GitHub be banned in Germany as well?

Muromec 12y ago
>I suppose we will soon learn what is the intersection of all free spech laws of the world. Yeah, something like ACID test but for governments. Ultimate pack of offensive material in different jurisdictions. Some nazi symbolics, some soviet symbolic, denial of Holocaust , Holodomor, some LGTB propaganda, something offensive for black or feminists, or Islam, or His Majesty the King of Thailand. And copyright infringement of course.
- jarin 12y ago
  Sounds like a great idea, but who's going to decide what kind of porn should be included in the ACID test? Even within the US, certain types of porn are legal in some jurisdictions and not others (think various kinds of rape fantasy porn, things involving various bodily fluids, etc).
iSnow 12y ago
>will GitHub be banned in Germany as well? Not in the next few years since some years ago a push to implement DNS-level blocking met with an outcry by the German geeksphere that ultimately pushed the pirate party in elections. The plans then were dropped on fear of censorship like in GB and Australia. But of course, this could be resurrected at some time - and Nazi symbols would be high on the list.
- hereonbusiness 12y ago
  I'm not really sure, don't they already block sites that contain all kinds of nazi propaganda even if they're hosted outside of Germany? If there were hundreds of accounts sharing nazi propaganda all over Github, wouldn't they be forced by law to block Github in Germany? As far as I can see it would not be against the Github terms of service to share such content as long as it doesn't violate any laws in your jurisdiction.

by gioele 12y ago

Muromec 12y ago

>I suppose we will soon learn what is the intersection of all free spech laws of the world. Yeah, something like ACID test but for governments. Ultimate pack of offensive material in different jurisdictions. Some nazi symbolics, some soviet symbolic, denial of Holocaust , Holodomor, some LGTB propaganda, something offensive for black or feminists, or Islam, or His Majesty the King of Thailand. And copyright infringement of course.

jarin 12y ago
Sounds like a great idea, but who's going to decide what kind of porn should be included in the ACID test? Even within the US, certain types of porn are legal in some jurisdictions and not others (think various kinds of rape fantasy porn, things involving various bodily fluids, etc).

iSnow 12y ago

>will GitHub be banned in Germany as well? Not in the next few years since some years ago a push to implement DNS-level blocking met with an outcry by the German geeksphere that ultimately pushed the pirate party in elections. The plans then were dropped on fear of censorship like in GB and Australia. But of course, this could be resurrected at some time - and Nazi symbols would be high on the list.

hereonbusiness 12y ago
I'm not really sure, don't they already block sites that contain all kinds of nazi propaganda even if they're hosted outside of Germany? If there were hundreds of accounts sharing nazi propaganda all over Github, wouldn't they be forced by law to block Github in Germany? As far as I can see it would not be against the Github terms of service to share such content as long as it doesn't violate any laws in your jurisdiction.