On: GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

[shawnps]

It's in GitHub's TOS that they maintain the ability to remove content they find offensive. So they asked a user to remove something that GitHub found offensive.

[brianpgordon → shawnps]

Literally nobody is claiming that this is illegal or against the GitHub ToS. The question is whether what they did was reasonable, and how this action impacts people's perception of them.