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"We did something wrong which we don't want to talk about, and as part of an agreement to save ourselves from a lawsuit we are now apologising publicly for that bad thing we did and we promise not to do that bad thing again"

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And we won't even give the name of the person who's taking personal responsibility, we'll just quietly scrub her name from the "leadership" page. Some anonymous person is taking personal responsibility and keeping her name out of the news so she can get a CHRO job somewhere else.

https://github.com/about/leadership

http://web.archive.org/web/20210101021219/https://github.com...

It’s not ethical to post the persons name, and potentially even illegal.

Why is it not ethical to post Carrie Olesen's name? The article says she's taking "personal responsibility" for the situation, does it not? How can you take responsibility if nobody knows who you are?

I, for one, applaud Carrie Olesen's personal responsibility in admitting to siding with Nazis and firing a Jew.

Where is that quote from?

Also, they are talking about the issue to a more than reasonable extent than what other companies have in the past.

Just because it's in quotation marks doesn't mean it's a direct quote.

The comment is clearly a statement by the commenter of an imagined subtext of the GitHub public statement.

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