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A few months ago, I’ve made some controversial comments on an open source project discussion that I regret. Because of these comments, GitHub decided to permanently ban me from the platform.

I can no longer have any account on GitHub, new accounts that I create are hunted and suspended.

I tried appealing the ban, and months have passed with no response from support.

This means that GitHub has effectively suspended my ability to participate in the development community, and also I cannot work as well, because my company uses GitHub, and as soon as GitHub finds out that a account is used by me, the account is immediately banned under the justification that it is being used to sidestep a decision.

I don’t know what to do anymore, I’m afraid, I’m going to be fired if I can’t work, what I’m going to do?

Edit: this thread is flagged, did I do anything wrong? Should I change something, or delete it?

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