Turkish government banned dropbox for hiding this torrent. please fork
github.com
github.com
Please don't use technical sites for political purposes.
According to the title, everyone in Turkey who uses Dropbox just had their accounts become collateral damage of this stunt. Obviously, everyone trying to get work done using Github is likely to have the same problem very soon.
But it's a worthy cause? Maybe so. But doing technical work is also a worthy cause. Without it, there would be nothing of value to have political fights over in the first place.
WikiLeaks exists for exactly this kind of thing. By all means go ahead and use it. But please don't turn Github into collateral damage for a political cause, no matter how worthy that cause.
You're probably not past such a tipping point. Perhaps entangling "non-political" resources will up your ante.
a) I doubt it and b) "notice" is insufficient.
To extreme this could ban Github in most of Europe.
It is also probably against Github license agreement.
The problem isn't activists using services like github; it's states shutting down these services in response.
-- George Orwell, "Why I Write" (1946)
Having no position means adopting the position of bullies and tyrants; or as the title of the Howard Zinn bio goes, you can't be neutral on a moving train. Also, entertaining "purely technical" (or mathematical or whatever) thoughts is kind of a luxury, and it's downstream from politics. That's not a value statement, but while all work and no play may make Jake a dull boy, all play and no work will make him a gone boy. If you love a thing very much, you absolutely should care about its foundations, and those who would sink them into the memory hole.
Collateral damage. What an interesting concept. In a sense, using technical sites for political purposes is a lot like blocking highway traffic for political purposes. Or blocking buses. Or blocking cafés.
If your basic social contract is being violated — let alone your basic human rights — no channel is superordinate to addressing that violation.
All concerns, rituals, laws, roles, rules or other social constructs must be seen as subordinate to the most foundational societal structures.
Technology is inherently political, whether it's in swords or plowshares. Trying to separate them will only deprive legitimate socio-political efforts of the network effect.
From what I understand, this contains leaked emails from the Turkish Minister of Energy, who happens to be President Erdogan's son-in-law.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/56h0s3/they_just_bl...
Second, the torrent is a 10GB rar file. People have to download everything just to decompress and assess whether the data in the torrent is really worth sharing.