I see that you've been downvoted, and while I can sort of see why, your thoughts somewhat echo my own, which earned you an upvote.
Everybody's tripping over themselves to praise Gitlab here, and while I agree that they probably made the right decision here, in this case, the biggest issue to me is that they saw nothing wrong with the censorship of a gist (or repo, or codebase) in the first place, and that strikes me in a distinctly negative way.
This post was one of disclosure. I am a free speech advocate on any issue for which there aren't compelling legal reasons necessitating removal (e.g., child porn), and I do my level best to make an effort to do businesses that prefer allowing free speech to the restriction of speech they disagree with. As a Gitlab user, this gives me great pause.
Everybody's tripping over themselves to praise Gitlab here, and while I agree that they probably made the right decision here, in this case, the biggest issue to me is that they saw nothing wrong with the censorship of a gist (or repo, or codebase) in the first place, and that strikes me in a distinctly negative way.
This post was one of disclosure. I am a free speech advocate on any issue for which there aren't compelling legal reasons necessitating removal (e.g., child porn), and I do my level best to make an effort to do businesses that prefer allowing free speech to the restriction of speech they disagree with. As a Gitlab user, this gives me great pause.