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posted by takyon on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:29AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:29AM (#213766) Journal

    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.

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