Why can’t GitHub just provide code version control systems without concerning itself with who is writing code?
Given the recent implosion of StackOverflow, less politics in tech is probably a good thing.
Basically, it's their job to provoke and our job as a community not to take the bait.
Can anyone provide an example of Nazi code being hosted on Gitlab? It might be nice to justify what otherwise looks like an absurd comparison made by this article. What would nazi code even look like? Or is "nazi" in this case just a catch-all for wrongthink?
I don't find it too hard to draw parallels between Nazi Germany and China at the moment.
But if we are going to ban anything, we need a very clear list of what is banned, when and for how long.
We know that CloudFlare has banned all Nazi-esque/White Supremacist material. China is a communist state, and Communism (in all real world implementations) requires violent redistribution of wealth. Should GitLab or Cloudflare remove all Communist material?
Who is the arbiter for which political opinions are not allowed in tech? Or should we just neutral towards customers?
At any random point in the future they can just revoke your access to the service if they decide something you were previously doing is no longer acceptable.
So far the only pattern I see is people making up hypothetical situations and using them to claim Gitlab is complicit in enabling human rights violations. But last I checked free speech is a human right!
There are a lot of ways to influence someone. Leaving general politics at the door is good idea. You are getting paid to work - so unless you have standing of being harmed directly by company action - just do your job or quit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
> While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort. Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.