leibniz wrote:... is part of the trend of corporations turning away from common sense and towards politics.
On one hand, the reality is that corporate censorship like this does help with good PR, one the other hand Code of Conducts are used for sniping people who disagree with your side.
This has nothing to do with politics or sniping. I can understand where you get this idea: getting banned for saying 'ATMs are retarded' feels random and unjustified unless somebody with ill will towards goof reported the post to github. But whether the ban was actually issued because somebody wanted goof gone or simply because goof was on github's watchlist and they decided 'He's not gonna learn' is besides the point. If you have gotten a slap on the wrist for bad conduct and you do not show any signs of improved behaviour, what do you expect is going to happen? If I kept showing up at your home to piss on your rug and you warned me not to do that anymore, you would just shoot me the next time I knocked on your door.
Github has every right to to remove content and users that violates their
terms of service. They do not have to tolerate you. By signing up to github you are accepting these ToS. It's not censorship if you violate these super simple rules and get your shit wrecked as a result.
How unhinged do you have to be to post a goatse on a service that promotes professional behaviour and then complain about not being able to refer to that service as a proof of your professionalism.
leibniz wrote:
In the end, our resident coder - who probably cant even order fries at McDonalds without getting the cops called on him - getting purged over one word is just another brief scene in the vivid tapestry that captures our society sailing further into the 21st century where people have increasingly less freedom and corporations have more.
Not trying to attack your point of view about social freedom here... but please don't play the victim card and make goof a martyr of social justice.