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It would be nice if all the takedowns were from the government. They've not mentioned the non-legal-system-influenced takedowns of https://github.com/GamerGate

by rjbwork 12y ago

It would be nice if all the takedowns were from the government. They've not mentioned the non-legal-system-influenced takedowns of https://github.com/GamerGate/GamerGateOP https://github.com/GamerGate/GamerGateOP and https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit... Who cares if they're transparent in government takedowns if they're going to actively censor their own users?

broodbucket 12y ago
Either these takedowns need to be documented in the report, or the reasoning should be on the repo itself (i.e. "broke rule x" or "offended too many users" (which hopefully isn't a reason something is taken down)). GitHub seems to be following the Reddit moderation style of "nothing that's illegal, or against our rules, or stuff that makes us look bad which we decide when we get grumpy emails"
parennoob 12y ago
From what I can see, it looks like GitHub employee @jakeboxer explicitly took the GamerGate one down to satisfy a feminist called @nexxylove because she claimed it contained "stalking and harassment" documents. http://imgur.com/AgSwrE2 http://imgur.com/AgSwrE2. This is the same individual claiming to be "astounded and really fucking angry" at the Intel/Gamasutra fiasco part of Gamergate (http://i.imgur.com/l1Uwkvd.png http://i.imgur.com/l1Uwkvd.png) Yep, not evident from the transparency report that repos get taken down so casually, with other users protesting. [I'm guessing it probably didn't contain those sort of instructions, and they can't claim so in the transparency report, because that would be libelous.]
- rjbwork 12y ago
  Wow. I didn't know the gamergate thing went down like that. Apparently your repos on github can just be deleted at the whims of the employees... Overall github is great but they definitely have some Growing up to do as an organization.

by rjbwork 12y ago

broodbucket 12y ago

Either these takedowns need to be documented in the report, or the reasoning should be on the repo itself (i.e. "broke rule x" or "offended too many users" (which hopefully isn't a reason something is taken down)). GitHub seems to be following the Reddit moderation style of "nothing that's illegal, or against our rules, or stuff that makes us look bad which we decide when we get grumpy emails"

parennoob 12y ago

From what I can see, it looks like GitHub employee @jakeboxer explicitly took the GamerGate one down to satisfy a feminist called @nexxylove because she claimed it contained "stalking and harassment" documents. http://imgur.com/AgSwrE2 http://imgur.com/AgSwrE2. This is the same individual claiming to be "astounded and really fucking angry" at the Intel/Gamasutra fiasco part of Gamergate (http://i.imgur.com/l1Uwkvd.png http://i.imgur.com/l1Uwkvd.png) Yep, not evident from the transparency report that repos get taken down so casually, with other users protesting. [I'm guessing it probably didn't contain those sort of instructions, and they can't claim so in the transparency report, because that would be libelous.]

rjbwork 12y ago
Wow. I didn't know the gamergate thing went down like that. Apparently your repos on github can just be deleted at the whims of the employees... Overall github is great but they definitely have some Growing up to do as an organization.