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Imagine my surprise when, after all the hyperbole and claims to have "no idea" what could have triggered it, it turns out he's engaged in an Internet-scale harassment campaign of another person.

I look forward to the pearl-clutchers in the thread walking back their overheated rhetoric.

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Read down to the bottom of his spiel; he acknowledges that the ban is rooted in his participation in an Internet harassment mob.

In the story.

“Ain’t no problem, bruh!”, — I thought. You know, we developers should stand for each other. Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve posted a (now deleted) issue rather than a tweet. The issue was titled “You’re a [funny-word]” where [funny-word] was a set of latin characters reminding a transliterated Russian half-offensive word for “gay”, while not being equal to that specific word. Think of something like “mother-lucker” or “mother-trucker”.

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