GitHub is sanctioning developers over politically incorrect language. Especially if you are a developer please contact them to provide some voice to those who support freedom of expression. As per: https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/354334 And as I wrote here. Please contact Github about this and simply mention you oppose this sort of political correctness in development: https://github.com/contact The reason this is important is that this is happening is because a tiny minority of nutters do things like mail bomb and spam companies with whining and complaining. And nobody is really going to defend a project using the word 'retarded', so it appears to be unanimous response from consumers. But it's not. Being afraid you'll offend the political correctness mob is not something developers should have to consider when building their projects, let alone being a possible reason for projects to be shut down. Here is what I wrote to them: Subject: Regarding recent administrative sanctions engaged in by GitHub Body: Hello, as open source developer and enthusiast I believe that threatening to disable projects because they contain politically incorrect or insensitive language goes against everything that open source stands for. In particular the biggest drive for open source software is freedom - for users to be able to change and distribute software as they see fit. At the same time we're finally taking one good step forward in seeing the courts take major steps to ensure developers no longer need worry an idea or algorithm they independently developed could see them sued and in court because somebody else developed it first, you're forcing us to take two steps backwards by now worrying that some line, phrase, or term in our project might "offend" people who every day are managing to find ever more innocuous things to be "offended" by. Thanks for the consideration Feel free to copy paste, but of course it would mean much more if people wrote them in their own words. This is serious. As we all know these things invariably escalate. The fact they're already threatening to permanently block projects for using the word 'retard' is extremely disconcerting especially at a time that another major source host, SourceForge, has recently become untrustworthy.