[pdyck]

I have a Hearthstone package on NPM which gets a few downloads everyday (also from China). Yesterday I removed everything in it and now module.exports is „光復香港 時代革命“ instead of Hearthstone data.

https://github.com/pdyck/hearthstone-db

[edejong]

Perhaps you want to rebase your changes to the root of your Git repo (in other words, remove history). Now people can just check out the HEAD^ commit.

[hkai]

I don't like using GitHub for politics.

[manicdee]

Everything is politics. Your decision to try ignoring politics is quiet assent to the status quo, which is the politics of least resistance.

Your protest against someone taking a stand against authoritarian rule is itself politics.

Your decision to use one licence over another when using or publishing software is politics.

Everything is politics, because everything that involves more than one person is politics and the decision to do something without other people is politics.

Everyrhing is politics, but politics isn’t everything.

[wickedsickeune]

How is this politics. This is a stand against a tyrant, this has nothing to do with political opinions. As a human being you have an obligation to stand against tyrants, nothing political about that.

[austhrow743]

Taking a stance on a governing bodies actions is clearly politics. In what way could it possibly not?

[wickedsickeune]

As an example, if your government instructed you to separate parents from their child, you could refuse, without any political motivations.

If you consider this a difference of opinion between the government and you, then yes, it may be political. In my view core values are not political, because you can't argue for and against them.

[austhrow743]

Core values values applied to governance decisions is exactly what a political stance is.

Refusing to obey that order from your government is a political decision.

[mwyah]

I'd argue that this is completely and absolutely political. Just deciding that this guy is a tyrant is political.

[Isinlor]

Not doing anything is also political. Everything is political in social context.

[wickedsickeune]

Maybe you are right.

In my mind you have to do something when you see blatant injustice, so it is justified. If you say that what I judge as unjust is political, then fair enough, it may very well be.

[z3phyr]

Everything you do is directly or indirectly part of politics. Your action and inaction both.

[hkai]

Not really. Perhaps for people that could be true, but not for businesses.

As a business, you absolutely don't have to declare your stand on the political issues in your country, let alone issues in some places half way across the world.

And especially declare your stand when you're not asked.

[Fnoord]

As a business, if you don't declare your stance on a political issue, you declare you agree with whatever the status quo is.

Hacking culture and politics are deeply entwined. Phreaking, for example, was a way to say no to AT&T monopoly.

[thrax]

I don't like you politicizing how people choose to use GitHub.