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While on the topic of censorship, https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filter...

"The EU is considering a copyright proposal that would require code-sharing platforms to monitor all content that users upload for potential copyright infringement (see the EU Commission’s proposed Article 13 of the Copyright Directive) … Upload filters (“censorship machines”) are one of the most controversial elements of the copyright proposal … EU policymakers have told us it would be very useful to hear directly from more developers. In particular, developers at European companies can make a significant impact."

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I see no way this proposal passes.

It's still at the proposal phase, but I wouldn't be so sure. It effectively extends the "content ID" system from being Google's voluntary choice to mandatory in the industry.

This would make it very hard for startups to compete

Like the revisions to Section 230 in the US?

Github is perfectly fine with censorship on their platform and they frequently use it to take down repositories that use language they don't like, it only becomes a problem when someone else does it to them. That blog post is very dishonest and manipulative too.

All online code/media publishing companies would be equally affected.

Can you give a specific example of what you're referring to? I suspect that you're thinking of situations like the GamerGateOP repository, which was disabled because it was being used for harassment. (There was no actual code in the repository; it was simply being used to host a newsletter.)

Besides, what are you trying to argue here? That web sites should be forced to distribute anyone's content?

Webm for retards is one example of censorship on Github. There are plenty of repositories that have no code in them that are perfectly fine by Github rules even if they're just pieces of propaganda.

What I'm trying to argue is that they're hypocrites that are only against censorship when it's applied to them and endangers their profits.

So they've solved the halting problem then?

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