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greggh wrote: post #2

Gitlab has enabled China's censorship of foreign content and free speech: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...

It's non of GitLabs business to play the judge in this. If a customer is doing something illegal and a court makes a judgment, they will probably do something.

I prefer a company not ruling their platform by their beliefs but by their countries laws and court rulings.

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Post by sverona » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

greggh wrote: post #2

Gitlab has enabled China's censorship of foreign content and free speech: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...

Your statement isn't supported by the article and they have since reversed the offending policy [1]

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferr...

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Post by y4mi » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

CallMeMarc wrote: post #4

greggh wrote: post #2

Gitlab has enabled China's censorship of foreign content and free speech: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...

It's non of GitLabs business to play the judge in this. If a customer is doing something illegal and a court makes a judgment, they will probably do something. I prefer a company not ruling their platform by their beliefs but by their countries laws and court rulings.

That sounds like a great idea but quickly gets you into very murky Waters, especially wrt China.

If the government in question doesn't try to be just, you'll end up assisting murder and silencing the voices of the oppressed.

Sometimes it really is better to say "no" to a business opportunity, if the other side isn't behaving in a sane manner.

And fwiw: gitlab did just that as the sister comment pointed out

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Post by white-moss » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

Awesome. Advantage has been added. GitLab is better than GitHub, I think.

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Post by gravypod » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

Very excited about hosting code coverage reports (with line by line coverage) for developers.

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Post by gpm » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

greggh wrote: post #2

Gitlab has enabled China's censorship of foreign content and free speech: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...

I don't think that article supports your statement.

Sure, that policy implies that Gitlab would take China's money if China wanted to be like any other customer. The policy doesn't seem to say whether or not Gitlab would take China's money if that meant censoring their other users.

(Also, that policy was rolled back the next day)

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Post by alt_f4 » Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

white-moss wrote: post #7

Awesome. Advantage has been added. GitLab is better than GitHub, I think.

Try discovering a project/package on GitLab vs GitHub. They really need to add proper search / explore mechanism.