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So if a restaurant asks you to leave because you're shouting ethnic slurs, that's censorship? Come on. GitHub is not the entirety of your expressive domain. If
by mbillie1 11y ago
So if a restaurant asks you to leave because you're shouting ethnic slurs, that's censorship? Come on. GitHub is not the entirety of your expressive domain. If you were disallowed by law from saying "retard" I would be sympathetic to this case. As is this entire thread reads like a series of entitled children whinging that their mums told them not to be nasty at school. If you dislike what GitHub has done, host your repo at one of the other free sites that provide this service, and stop insulting people in legitimately oppressive states by equating your churlish valley bigotry with legitimately repressed speech.
- Zikes 11y agoHey, if you want to argue with the dictionary be my guest. I'm afraid my name isn't Oxford, though, and I'm not really sure how to reach him. Sorry about that.
- mbillie1 11y agoIn that case - since you're merely quoting the dictionary without voicing an opinion - I invite you to refrain from further diluting the present discussion with your vacuous commentary. I assure you that the entirety of HN readership can avail itself of word definition services.
- Zikes 11y agoIf you're going to ask me to put away the dictionary you could try it without dragging out the thesaurus.
- mbillie1 11y agoAnother profound contribution to the discourse! Are you always so topical, or are you making a special effort here?
- waterlesscloud 11y agoApparently not. This. Is. Censorship. It's not in any way a debatable point. The dynamic that's going on here is that people want to endorse censorship while avoiding using that word.
- iwwr 11y agoThe difference being that there are no network effects in restaurants and usually there is another one just around the corner.
- mbillie1 11y agoBitbucket, gitlab, ? Also, because you do not perceive any network effect in restaurants in no way proves that there are none.