GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by ectoplasm on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:30AM (#9966862)

> Can we police ourselves fairly and achieve a society that is not offensive? Absolutely not.

Hacker News is a pretty nice place.

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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by lordfoom on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:39AM (#9967396)

And yet one is allowed to use the word retard.

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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by JoshTriplett on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:07AM (#9966982)

This thread, and almost any thread about social issues in technology, demonstrates that it has both nice and awful people hanging out on it.

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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by ectoplasm on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:43AM (#9967147)

Perhaps, but what makes it a nice place is the limits on how awful people can be.

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