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: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:15PM
I call bullshit.
If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him.
If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him?
It's not like the people who own the servers are actually required to sit down and read all the transactions. They don't have to interact with the patrons, like a wait staff in a restaurant do. There are no "guests" on the internet. Arrogant bastards choosing to impose their "moral" standards on other people are quick to censor shit they don't like. That is what it boils down to.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:12PM
> If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him.
Yes, gay people are a group with a history of being discriminated against for doing nothing to hurt anyone.
> If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him?
Yes, asshole people are not a group with a history of being discriminated against for doing nothing to hurt anyone. In fact, doing something to hurt someone else is pretty much the definition of 'asshole.'
My question for you is did you understand the difference and chose to ignore it because it offends you, or did you really not understand the difference until it was explained to you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:19AM
On the contrary, assholes are being discriminated against everywhere. No other kind of person faces such universal loathing everywhere across the world.
But I guess it's okay to discriminate against people, as long as we don't like them.
My question for you is did you understand the difference and chose to ignore it because it offends you, or did you really not understand the difference until it was explained to you?
And my question to you is do you understand what double dichotomy is, or are you just being a dishonest twat?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:09PM
>> doing something to hurt someone else is pretty much the definition of 'asshole.'
>
> I guess it's okay to discriminate against people, as long as we don't like them.
Woooosh!
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:31PM
And my question to you is do you understand what double dichotomy is
No. DuckDuckGo and Google appear not to return relevant results for "double dichotomy" definition.
Let me rephrase how I understood the comment: "If you do not understand the difference between the situation surrounding gay people and that surrounding inconsiderate people, your comment appears reasonable and I'd be glad to help explain. But if you do understand this difference, your comment appears to me as if you are choosing to ignore it because it offends you."