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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: 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.