An explanation as to why I no longer host my personal repositories on Github and discourage you from doing so.

Github has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to be purchased. Under this agreement, "GitHub will be led by CEO Nat Friedman, an open source veteran and founder of Xamarin, who will continue to report to Microsoft Cloud + AI Group Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie".

Here are some of the things the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group are up to:

• Won a 6 year cloud computing agreement with 17 U.S. intelligence agencies
• Wrote about their pride that Azure is mission critical to United States 'Immigrations and Customs Enforcement' (ICE). Despite public pushback, GitHub got contract to provide Enterprise Servers to the 'Enforcement and Removal Operations' (ERO) division of ICE
• Entered the 'Predictive Policing' market, using Chicago as their case study The Chicago PD is notoriously corrupt. The Department of Justice investigation of Chicago's police department found "a pattern or practice of unconstitutional use of force" and numerous violations of citizens Constitutional rights
• Unprecedented open-source software piracy at Github
• Finally, I am just sick of Microsoft stuffing their policies down my throat through GitHub

Efforts of open source community should not be used to help increase the market value and image of a company making billions of dollars enabling surveillance, violence, and human rights abuses.

I am keeping my github account only to communicate information stated above, but I will not host my projects here and will put my best efforts to discourage others from doing so.