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Re:Faker.js is now a community controlled project by nightpool on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:19AM (#29963568)
This is an opinion you can have, but it's far from clear that it's an obvious or inherent one. What is the Github "community"? Who constitutes it? If I use Github for a personal project, and share the link with my friend, are we "part of the Github community"? How were we harmed by this incident? Did anyone say "We should shut Github down because they're irresponsibly hosting someone who would use his public JavaScript libraries to make a political statement"?

How was Github's community, specifically, harmed? A lot of developers were inconvenienced, but they would have been just as inconvenienced if he pushed the code to NPM from his local git repo, and never touched Github at all. Where does Github come into this?

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Re:Faker.js is now a community controlled project by blowski on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:19AM (#29963869)
It sounds like you’re looking for very clear lines which can and can’t be crossed. Whereas others see a blurry grey area in which GitHub makes judgement calls, and then individuals decide whether or not to use GitHub.
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Re:Faker.js is now a community controlled project by nightpool on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:16AM (#29964160)
Mm, not really. There are lots of cases much more blurry and questionable then this one. What I'm looking for is 1) a recognition that Github would be in the wrong to suspend Marak for doing whatever he wanted with his own open source project, and 2) an acknowledgement that it's important for Github to be transparent about why they took the actions they did and what motivated their actions.
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