Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by mbillie1 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:06AM
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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 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.
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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by Zikes on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:12AM
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Hey, 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.
Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by mbillie1 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:19AM
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In 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.
Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by Zikes on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:21AM
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If you're going to ask me to put away the dictionary you could try it without dragging out the thesaurus.
Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by mbillie1 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:10PM
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Another profound contribution to the discourse! Are you always so topical, or are you making a special effort here?
Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by waterlesscloud on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:21AM
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Apparently 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.