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 Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:33PM
Aren't you a clever little asshole, trying to define away what it means to be an asshole in order to avoid facing uncomfortable truths.
Funny how it can be so easily turned against you. As far as I'm aware, there's no scientific and objective definition of "asshole" in this context. I was merely giving my opinion about this subjective matter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:10AM
> I was merely giving my opinion about this subjective matter.
To what end? As they say opinions are like assholes...
If your point is that context matters, congratulations captain obvious!
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday July 27 2015, @11:27AM
And yet many people don't realize that simple fact, getting offended by mere words no matter how they're used, and denouncing certain words as objectively "bad". Furthermore, the word "asshole" was used above as if it had an objective meaning; it wasn't stated as an opinion.