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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: 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".