I respect this decision and the reasons for it. You will certainly get some flak from the ggers, no surprises there.
On Monday, October 6, 2014 9:12:12 PM UTC+9, sytse wrote: > > Dear GitLab friends, (/cc GitLab-core) > > I want to get your opinion on the following. > > Yesterday the GamerGate repo was set up at > https://gitlab.com/gamergate/gamergate. This repo was removed from other > hosting services for organized harassment. > > In response to questions on twitter (and without informing myself or > looking at the repo) I indicated that all respectful people are welcome in > https://twitter.com/gitlabhq/status/518391065037258752 > > I didn't see previous discussion about this at Gitorious > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gitorious/YX8O-gF1KSw/discussion > > I feel very uncomfortable with the whole situation. The repo itself seems > to call for boycotts (which is something people are free to do). But some > instructions in the repo are for twitter and email spam via throwaway > accounts, for example > gamergate/blob/master/Twitter%20Flooding%20Instructions.md > "Make a cock.li/Gmail throwaway email address if you don't want your new > Twitter account to be linked to your main email address. > Create your new Twitter account, using your new email address if > appropriate. Also make sure to choose a Twitter username not associated > with any of your other accounts, to reduce doxxing risks." > > Spamming people is not OK as far as I'm concerned and our reason for > removing this repo, in accordance with our terms: "Termination. Gitlab B.V. > may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, > with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately." > > The worst thing is that there seems to be systematic harassment of people > (especially women) by this campaign. If so this is terrible and something > that we absolutely condone. But I'm not sure what happened or if this is > related to this repo so this didn't factor into our decision making. > > Best regards, > Sytse Sijbrandij > CEO GitLab B.V. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/388fbf19-e285-42fc-ae17-2374f3a6b513%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
