Ask HN: GitHub censoring porn from GitHub pages. Would that be OK or not OK?

4 points

11 years ago

In the debate[1] over GitHub's new Code of Conduct[2] and their recent actions to enforce it, a great number if a not majority of HN commenters condemned it as an unconscionable moral betrayal. There was no gray area.

The anti-GitHub sentiment is cropping up in other comment threads, and apparently is driving an exodus from GitHub to Y-Combinator's own GitLab[3].

This is not a troll post. It is a genuine question to understand the value system that seems to dominate tech culture, the very same culture that is experiencing a growing societal backlash.

My hope is that we can have, as dang puts it, a reflective rather than reflexive discussion[4]. Please, comment thoughtfully. Try for "Feynman integrity"[5]. Avoid the knee-jerk. Stay true to HN's own code of conduct[6]. Sorry about all the links.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

[2] https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-conduct

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003334

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001153

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996843

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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