It's worth noting that Romanias ambassador to Sweden backs a begging ban because that it is permitted to beg in Sweden "does not facilitate Romania's efforts to achieve social inclusion and increased employability" .

I'll refer US based grammar police to the H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler 1906 British usage guide The King’s English in regards to how I do quotes. I also spell colour with a u. Cheers.

This is on Techdirt today too, check it out: Github Nukes Repository Over Use Of The Word 'Retard'

However, there are two things in that article I take issue with, 1:
"....but it couldn't be bothered to ask nixxquality (the person behind the offensive code comments)"

I hoped I had made it very clear that "retard" was in the original repo, and thus ended up in all the forks made from that, and not something that Nixx had added to the fork. I guess I could have been clearer. It is incorrect to say that Nixx is the person behind the offensive code comment. I said as much on twitter so that this misinfo doesn't take hold.

and 2:
"....There's nothing censorious about a private company deciding what it does and doesn't want..."

Actually, that's the definition of it. In this case Github is the entity suppressing speech (words) they consider objectionable.

There are now only 224,018 results searching on the word retard, so 459 projects have either been edited or removed from Github.