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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: 4, Informative) by GungnirSniper on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:30PM
Retard used to be a specific term for the slow or Down Syndrome people, before that imbecile was the term used. So society went through this same linguistic struggle to replace imbecile with retard since imbecile meant what retard now does today; basically a general insult. So at some point the new term, intellectual disability, will get the same connotations attached to it and we'll again need a new term for an old idea. Our society is on a permanent euphemism treadmill.
On a related note, Nordic peoples with retarded babies used to believe that trolls kidnapped their real children and replaced them. So the negative connotation is going to exist no matter what term is used.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:54PM
> Our society is on a permanent euphemism treadmill.
That all presumes society won't just use a term that has no clinical meaning - like "stupid." There is nothing inherent in clinical terminology that requires society to adopt it for an insult. We have plenty of linguistic variety to choose from.
(Score: 2) by _NSAKEY on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:13PM
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:50PM
while george could make a good joke, he didn't explore why the name changed for that condition. the truth is that the name for PTSD changed because we didn't understand what caused it. it's likely the name will remain the same until we figure out how to reverse it.
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:17PM
PTSD can already be reversed with abreaction therapy [wikipedia.org]. Replaying the engrams, or strong memories of trauma, in a safe environment helps the sufferer extinguish the associations [wikipedia.org]. This is part of why Dianetics took off: L. Ron Hubbard put his own spin on abreaction and used it to treat people who probably had undiagnosed PTSD. Other organizations outside of Scientology, such as Traumatic Incident Reduction Association [tir.org], are also applying abreaction therapy.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Monday July 27 2015, @06:34AM
PTSD can already be reversed with abreaction therapy.
PTSD can be treated to effectively reverse it but this actually rewires your synapses to a third state. to truly reverse it you need nanotech that actually rewires your synapses to a previous state before the trauma. i think when we have this technology, we will understand the persistent cause of the problem which will be some sort of synaptic pattern that forms in the brain. the new name will describe the synaptic pattern found instead of what caused the pattern to occur.
clarify my previous post, not splitting hairs.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:29AM
Actually it isn't that cut and dry, because for at least the 40+ years I've been here in the south retard is no different than dumbass or moron, a general term for dipshits. For those that had an actual disability like Down's? You would use "slow" as in "its okay, he's a little slow" and would be used to give extra consideration to the person.
Its no different than how every soft drink is a "coke" down here, you'll say "get me a coke" and folks will say "What kind?" because that is a generic term for soft drink, down here retard is just another general term for somebody doing stupid shit.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.