= GitHub blocked the China Dictatorship bot
https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1330
<GitHub> forbade our <China Dictatorship> auto-reply bot, the reason given is because they forbid comment reply bots in general. Though it was cool to see a junior support staff person giving out what obviously triggered the action:\Q[We've received a large volume of complaints from other users indicating that the comments and issues are unrelated to the projects they were working on.]before a more senior one took over.
Ciro was slightly saddened but not totally surprized by the bloodbath against him on the Reddit the threads he created:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1g7acv6/github_forbade_me_from_running_a_bot_that_would/ deleted by admins because\Q[We don't work for GitHub and we can't help you with your GitHub support problems. You'll just need to be patient.]which is stupid, obviously we should be able to discuss GitHub policies in that sub.
* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1g7aa6k/american_programming_website_github_forbade_me/[]: also deleted without reason
So we observe once again the stupidity of <deletionism> towards anything that is considered controversial. The West is discussion fatigued, and would rather delete discussion than have it.
We also se people against you having freedom to moderate your own repositories as you like it, with bots or otherwise. Giving up freedoms for nothing, because "bot is evil".
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