Today I learned that if you attempt to make open source software then you better be prepared to lose accounts. Recently a friend asked me about a service named plex. I had looked at their front page and not really gone farther than that. I stopped the second someone informed me that I would have to pay money to use this service. To me that sounded silly. I could easily build an application like that for free for everyone. Use VLC media player and streaming output to another device is pretty easy to do once you do a little research. A few tweaks here, a few tweaks there, getting ai to write some html cus im bad at front ends and bam. There it was A simple service for turning any pc into a video streaming server for free. So of course wanting the world to gain the benefits of this work to never have to pay for silly things, I pushed it to github. In less than 12 hours my account was removed from public view and everything I did couldn't be touched by the outside world. My github was blocked from signing into the forums that I posted projects on, blocked from being linked to by anyone, and blocked from being seen at all by anyone, except me. Now I wait for the github team to decide my fate. Wondering why in the world is it OK for someone to immediately get an account removal for making something themselves. Is capitalism that incredibly fragile that a simple open source competitor puts everything at risk? Anyway All this stuff is dumb and hopefully it resolves quickly. Until then I might just push everything to a second account and keep my open source work on their so my personal projects aren't affected. So that employers don't wonder "do you have any work to show? Cus the link you sent is doing a 404" In case anyone is wondering, I believe the crux of the issue is the about line that I made for this project. "This is an simple server that I made to play videos instead of using something like plex. Because paying money for things isn't what I'm about"

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