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Aurornistoday at 12:52 AM1 replyview on HN

User also got themselves banned from Gitlab, an unrelated company. Their quotes in the article are threatening violence and destruction toward Microsoft.

I don’t know what’s going on, but given that they’re getting banned from multiple unrelated organizations and threatening to “crush their bones” and such, I suspect this is probably just a regular old case of someone being abusive and unhinged, getting banned because of it, and then claiming conspiracy.

What, exactly, did this person post to GitHub and/or Gitlab that got them banned? We should all know by now that any exploits posted to GitHub are cloned and forked everywhere immediately. Why are these articles so vague about what was posted?

Also, these conspiracy theories that the NSA or other .gov is forcing this are quite ridiculous, as it would be infinitely easier for them to just hand the guy a pile of money than to Streisand effect it with a visibly unhinged guy talking about dead man’s switches and crushing bones.


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ImPostingOnHNtoday at 1:50 AM

Before we go down the road of analyzing someone's reaction, we should first analyze what they're reacting to: How much money did microsoft bilk this person out of? What is a reasonable reaction to someone taking that much money out of your paycheck?