Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ...
by lexcorvus on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @10:02PM
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1. This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed.
This is true, but the same can be said of the Hollywood blacklist [1] during the Red Scare. Do you support Hollywood blacklist–style ideological litmus tests in technology? If you think such things are a bad idea, and you think a culture that encourages them is dysfunctional, then legality is really beside the point.
This is true, but the same can be said of the Hollywood blacklist [1] during the Red Scare. Do you support Hollywood blacklist–style ideological litmus tests in technology? If you think such things are a bad idea, and you think a culture that encourages them is dysfunctional, then legality is really beside the point.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist