Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
by eropple on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:27AM
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This is unhelpful. In a practical way, if you want to participate in open-source you very often must use GitHub. It is also unhelpful because it conflates what GitHub is legally allowed to do with what they should do. "They gave consent" is a poor basis for bad behavior and it cannot be normalized with a sniff and a "well, read the TOS".
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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
by sheogorath on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:39AM
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Agreed, not super helpful his current situation. But might something that other people who read this want to take into consideration or being aware of. And hopefully being more critical about terms of service in future.
For him, I would expect to call out the clause that "allows" GitHub to do that as it is quite sure illegal in some European counties to have such a arbitrary termination policy. And maybe even start a legal case about it and call for support.
But this way it simply sounds like "please take me back" begging.