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Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

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Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
- Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
  
  That's weird. Russians and Americans aren't sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.
  
  They got unbanned, but it eroded trust that it won't happen again
  
  Ironically the US is more likely to drop the sanctions before Germany, where Codeberg is based.
  Edit: They've gone self hosted. That makes more sense.
  
  Welcome to the "free world".
  
  Russia is free to fuck off out of Ukraine, simple as.
  
  I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.
  
  "Bro, just overthrow your government". ~ random redditor, probably.
  
  conservative: says a racial slur
  Online Platform: bans user
  conservative: "sO mUcH fOr tHe tOlEraNt lEfT 😡"
  
  Person: makes map app for everyone to use
  Twitter baby: "Racial slurs! Racial slurs!"
  
  Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.
  Please elaborate? What exactly do you mean?
  
  Let me give you an analogy.
  I was born in the People's Republic of China. I immigrated to the United States of America when I was not even 10. I grew up in America, I grew attached to the principles of Freedom and Democracy. I went through the proper channels and I obtained Citizenship through the proper way. I am an American.
  If someone were to tell me that I'm "not American", and that because I was "born Chinese, I must be Chinese for the rest of my life"; or, in your phrasing: "A Chinese person cannot become American" you'd be a xenophobe.
  Gender is a social contruct. If a man wants to be a woman, or a woman wants to be a man, just let them. Its not denying that they have XX or XY chromosomes, that is what their biology says. But being a "Man" or "Woman" are labels society attributes to those chromosomes, just like the concept of Nationality.
  TLDR: Please just let people be whoever they want to be. If you start attacking people's identity, nobody is gonna wanna talk to you. If you want to spread transphobia, you can go to twitter. Enjoy your nazi bar.
  
  Men who want to be called women are perpetuating the idea that women should be a certain way.
  If you actually knew any trans people you might realize that they are often the most gender-nonconforming people. But instead you've imagined this image of the misogynistic stereotype-driven trans woman rather than bother to observe material reality.

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