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I would request you to refrain from personal attacks.

I don't know if it was a ToS takedown at all. Look at what the page[1] says -- "Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. Contact support to restore access to this repository." Geek Feminism's wiki [2] says "Misogynist C Plus Equality satire project announced and repositories were created on GitHub and BitBucket, with commits impersonating various geek feminists. GitHub removed it quickly." without mentioning a reason.

[1] https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

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A metaphorical suggestion that you have an axe to grind is a description of your behaviour, not a criticism of you as a person.

You obviously dragged your baggage into this discussion. It’s your baggage, drag it everywhere you like, but do not be surprised if you get called for ranting about feminist conspiracies in tech in a discussion that is not about feminism.

Sure, GitHub has taken some repos offline. Fine and good to suggest that it would be helpful for them to report on these things, in this or another report.

Excellent to bring up an example that matters to you personally. You’re invested in it, you feel strongly about it.

But the moment you started to talk about tech culture as a whole and some bias the industry may have with respect to feminism, you left the subject matter behind.

Perhaps github has something against impersonation?

The only reference I can find from them "impersonating" a feminist is this https://github.com/search?q=FeministSoftwareFoundation&ref=s..., which references the user https://github.com/AndreaDworkin

Since Andrea Dworkin died in 2005, I'm not sure how she could have a github account today, so the "impersonation" claim might be a little thin. I think it would be akin to creating a github user called "ErwinRommel" or something -- referencing a well known person who isn't around any more.

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