Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of flagging it here on HN?

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8 years ago

Yesterday I posted a link to a tweet with evidence that GitHub was censoring repos critical of the Microsoft acquisition. I think this is relevant news because just two days ago, the new CEO of GitHub, Nat Friedman said, "I’m not asking for your trust, but I’m committed to earning it." and that "We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud."

Source: https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

And then yesterday GitHub started cracking down on free speech and censoring people who are critical of the Microsoft acquisition. So, I thought this was worth sharing.

It made it into the top 20 on HN rapidly, but then it disappeared suddenly because some people flagged it.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/KyQjvWM.jpg

So now we have HN readers censoring a story about GitHub censoring people who are protesting the Microsoft acquisition. So I just wanted to share this story and see if a more productive, open discussion could come of it instead of people censoring each other all over the place. If you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.

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