Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
gamer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it’s a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn’t keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Welcome to the “free world”.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Russia is free to fuck off out of Ukraine, simple as.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
conservative: says a racial slur
Online Platform: bans user
conservative: “sO mUcH fOr tHe tOlEraNt lEfT 😡”
lumony@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Person: *makes an app for everyone to use*
Twitter baby: “Racial slurs! Racial slurs!”
Ushmel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s weird. Russians and Americans aren’t sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
They got unbanned, but it eroded trust that it won’t happen again
wewbull@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Ironically the US is more likely to drop the sanctions before Germany, where Codeberg is based.
lumony@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Viva la self-hosting!
Power to the people!