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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 Sunday July 26 2015, @08:05PM
> Historically, "idiot" was clinical terminology
That all depends on where your history starts. That particular clinical usage only began in the late 1800s, predated by well over a millennia of explicitly unflattering usage. That's on the people who tried to co-opt it for clinical usage, not on the people who have used its original meaning before, during and after that misguided adoption by clinicians.