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GitHub, the git repository hosting service, recently disabled access to the repository of the video converter "WebM for Retards".
This tool, allowing a user to easily convert portions of a video to the increasingly supported WebM format, is mostly used on image-boards and image sharing websites. Despite its name, the project is a fully working tool.
Even the forks hosted on GitHub have been affected by this ban.
At the time of writing, the GitHub staff hasn't offered any form of explanation as to why access to the repo has been limited. However it is not hard to imagine that this may have to do with the name of the project. The recent news regarding DICCS come to mind.
takyon: From GitHub's Terms of Service:
We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:46PM
Only complete retards would find this offensive. Did anyone actually get offended, or is this another case where busybodies got offended for some group of people they thought would be offended and so they complained?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:18PM
They had a mom calling saying "three year old johnny here is not retarded. He's intellectually challenged. And while he is to retarded^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H challenged to actually understand this name, I think that I have the right to force you to take down this insulting project"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:50PM
We had a black guy at a tech place, his name was mickey. When we hired him, it was improper to use the term "n***er rigged" anymore, so we used the term "mickey rigged" instead.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:40AM
Did his momma name him after Mickey's? [warrenbeer.com]
Well, at least you still have your Chinese fire-drills, right?
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:04PM
I'm surprised that they didn't try to honor the memory of famous Black inventors by promoting the term "Afro-engineered".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:56PM
> Did anyone actually get offended,
Does it really matter to you? If someone had been insulted would that change your opinion or would you just switch to a new tact like telling them toughen up?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:54PM
It does matter, because I want to know the truth about this. If it turned out people were offended, I would indeed tell them to toughen up.
GitHub can do what it wants, but it's not immune from criticism. My comment was no troll; people who criticize oversensitivity are not automatically trolls.