I don't like framing this debate in the prism of government versus private company policing. Freedom of speech is not mutually exclusive to the government. Con

I don't like framing this debate in the prism of government versus private company policing. Freedom of speech is not mutually exclusive to the government. Consider a programming club meeting once a week that is open to the public. You get there and it's 6 dudes and they are accepting of you as a coder but completely at odds with you on the social justice spectrum (using words like "gay" and "retard" as examples). You have two choices at this point. Either accept the group for who they are or leave. This is the context in which I see Github. There's a reason why Linus can run his mouth. It's because to the old "boys" club of programmers only results matter and not the social context of the group. They have no problem with Linus using their service while running his mouth. Why are they picking on this group in particular? It's quite simple. They are small and not important. Let me be clear. This is very very bad for open source. Github was once considered the automatic public place to share your code. For the most part most projects live in the world of a few singular coders who put their code out to the world for sharing sake and maybe to possibly intrigue others to join their project. Many of these guys are sitting in their bedrooms or garages hacking away and not looking to open themselves up to the SJW crowd when publishing their code. Regardless of what you think of the people doing the coding (which is reflected in the comments) the point of Github was to improve the accessibility of code. I fear this move will take that mission in the opposite direction. Successful software is almost always filled with expletives. The device you are browsing this very site almost certainly had at least one fuck in it's source code somewhere in the stack. Just look at the Linux Kernel http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/