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Comment by PragmaticPulp

> It doesn't feel like there was enough criticism against GitHub for their decision to ban the developer of faker/colors.

He's not banned: https://github.com/Marak

You have to keep in mind that his changes were basically indistinguishable from a security breach of his account. Nobody really sabotages their own repos in a malicious manner like this. Suspending his account while they investigated doesn't seem like a stretch.

> This was his own corner of the internet for him to publish his own personal projects.

Which he's still free to do. But the actions in question had nothing to do with his "personal projects". It was specifically about his actions to intentionally break popular Node.js packages and do so with a version number that would disguise the change as a non-breaking update. It was a malicious act, and there's no way to paint it as anything else.

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