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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, @11:03PM
> In the former case in the form of reclaiming a word for a community
Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage.
> In the latter those that merely doubt their skills in a significant way.
That's derogatory usage since they medical definition doesn't actually apply.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:53PM
You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:45AM
> You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker.
And since you are a member of all those groups it is OK for you to use those terms.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:49PM
Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage.
Even if you aren't part of that community, that doesn't mean the usage is "derogatory". There's no such thing as a word that is inherently "bad." Whether they meant it in a "derogatory" way depends on their intent.
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:36PM
There's no such thing as a word that is inherently "bad." Whether they meant it in a "derogatory" way depends on their intent.
Perhaps a word is deemed "bad" if a supermajority of its recent uses have carried derogatory intent.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:45PM
But that's still subjective. Furthermore, even a supermajority use it in a way that people deem derogatory, it's still possible to use it without that intent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:08AM
What is your goal in making this argument?
Are you just nit-picking or is there a meaningful point to stating the obvious fact that nothing that humans do is 100% black and white?
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday July 27 2015, @11:30AM
There is a meaningful point when a great number of people don't realize that. And I can't tell the difference between people who truly believe it's an objective matter and people who realize it's a subjective matter but frame the matter as if it's an objective matter; I have to ask or make some comment to find out.