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Re:GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Torn... by anonporridge on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:52PM (#32400444)
Has it ever been the case that the majority of the developer community stand behind this kind of resistance to government power?

It seems like it's always been a tiny minority of idealists who put their own lives on the line to do what they believe is right in the face of the beast bearing down on them.

The majority has always been (and probably will always be) weak minded corporate yes men.

What is distasteful is the so called "hacker" community being filled with corporate yes men.

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Re:GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Torn... by dogman144 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:09PM (#32400709)
Yes this is usually it, and then the whole ecosystem benefits from it down the line. Very distasteful.
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Re:GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Torn... by mikhael28 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:19PM (#32419128)
So, money laundering, fraud and enabling cyber criminal activity is 'idealism'?

Also: GitHub is a private company. It's their real estate, they can do what they want with it. If they wanted to keep it up, they could have.

They didn't want to.

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