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Kudos:

"Unfortunately, RawGit has also become an attractive distribution mechanism for malware. RawGit was meant to improve people's lives, but jerks are increasingly using it to hurt people.

Since I have almost no time to devote to fighting malware and abuse on RawGit (and since it would be no fun even if I did have the time), I feel the responsible thing to do is to shut it down. I would rather kill RawGit than watch it be used to hurt people."

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I am having a similar problem with npm. I guess people decided to upload warez to npm and it's affecting my tool that reads from npm. This is why we can't have nice things :(

https://github.com/styfle/packagephobia/issues/141#issuecomm...

Where does one draw the line? The internet is used for that, so should we shut down the internet? Is the content of the internet the responsibility of its creators, or operators?

I completely sympathize with this position for a one-person service, but I think the real problem is that we still haven't figured out how to fix incentives so we can distribute the work of keeping the jerks in line. On the internet, the jerks are winning.

> On the internet, the jerks are winning.

Arguably, it's not just on the internet. But I try to be optimistic.

Sure. I guess I'm old enough I still see the internet as a thing that we could hypothetically choose to shut down (without killing half the population) -- unlike, say, agriculture and civilization. Maybe that's not realistic, though.

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