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Vanderhoth [soylentnews.org] writes:

You heard it here folks,

Last night (October 3) Github developer Jake Boxer [twitter.com] disabled the GamerGate github repository containing documents for "Operation Disrespectful Nod". Which contained documents for a letter writing campaign to advertisers for the publishers of the game media articles declaring gamers dead just over a month ago. Here's a link to an image of the removal request [imgur.com] for if/when the original tweet [twitter.com] is eventually removed.

Jake previously voiced his disapproval for intel pulling ads from Gamasutra claiming: "While we wait for @Intel to correct this, here's @leighalexander's fantastic piece that they pulled ads because of ..." original tweet [twitter.com] along with "@leighalexander so fucking angry that this happened. thank you so much for the writing and work that you do." original tweet [twitter.com], Backup Image [imgur.com] for both.

Note @leighalexander is Leigh Alexander [twitter.com] Editor At Large for Gamasutra, author of 'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over. [archive.today]

Reddit [reddit.com] is also up in arms over a "rogue" employee being allowed to delete repositories that, to my knowledge, don't violate Githubs terms of service.

So what's the Soylent take on this? Is it ok seeing as Github is a private entity, maybe they don't have to host anything they don't want. Maybe it's time to start migrating my personal repos to other services in case electrical diagramming or web development offends someone.

I could be wrong, but isn't Soylent's slashcode hosted in Github?

Cross posting to pipedot

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