Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of flagging it here on HN?

Re:Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of f... by Assossa on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:31AM (#17256693)

I have not heard of any censorship happening on GitHub. Can you provide some more details and proof?

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Re:Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of f... by firloop on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:35AM (#17256734)

A repo critical of the acquisition was removed from the Github “trending” page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251255

This doesn’t bother me that much, as the repo itself was unaffected and I expect a trending page to have some sort of bias/editorship.

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Re:Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of f... by lostmsu on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:55PM (#17258392)

IMO, the statement is far from being trusted, not the least because it is unclear if the trend dried up on its own.

The title in both cases is clickbait'y.

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Re:Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of f... by hmyr0 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:23PM (#17259279)

It didn't. I witnessed the repository (previously #1) suddenly disappear, despite it still gaining stars significantly faster than the other trending repositories. Another repository, 'deno', had been on Trending for a significantly longer time, so it's unlikely that the anti-Microsoft repository was automatically removed to make room for other repositories.

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