Remove the picture with flags and "politics"

[KOLANICH]

The picture can be interpreted as a request to keep GH politically neutral because it contains 2 parody mascotts, one "politics" mascot and another one "GH" mascot separated by a wall of flags and politics mascot is drawn in an evil way.

Keeping anything politically neutral is both harmful and impossible.

Impossibility: When one declares political neutrality he/she/it declares "my position is always the one allowing me go get the most of profits I can get". In the most of cases this position is to aggree to everything that the jurisdiction supports, because no jurisdiction wants any opposition and every jurisdiction has means to either drastically reduce profits of any business or individual and/or help their competitors.

But so the position "<the same position as the position of a powerful entity>" is not politically neutral. There is ain't no such a thing, as a neutral political position. If you are in this world, you have a political position which is not neutral.

And claiming that they have a "neutral position" is exactly what most of businesses do in order to continue having their profits without their emploees being prosecuted.

It contradicts to what you really ask GH to do. In my opinion you ask them to have the official position that the regulations banning interactions to regular users based solely on the territory they live in (which in fact is completely out of control of most of people, and even if it is in control, it often makes no sense to change the jurisdiction, because alternative jurisdictions are often have worse legislation than the one a person currently lives in) is inacceptable. It is a completely non-neutral position.

The picture also contains flags of the jurisdictions having bad fame of human rights violations. Some of these jurisdiction have heavy censorship. Placing a flagbof a jurisdiction is promoting that jurisdiction. Why do you promote these jurisdictions specifically? Why do they deserve any promotion? Doesn't promoting them contradict to the position stated in the previous paragraph?

[ovflowd]

Wow, I totally agree with your statements, @KOLANICH

In the end we want GitHub to actually interfere and give advantages and help the banned countries; GitHub is "kinda" without officially saying, doing that. Eg.: the feature of changing private repositories to public ones...

But if GitHub publicly supports, Iran for example, they would be directly violating the US trade sections and be facing directly judgement from the US government. That's really hard.

I would personally change the picture from the README to a generic Octocat from http://octodex.github.com, there are many samples and this one specifically:

For me looks like "collaboration" and "support".

[1995parham]

@ovflowd Personally I agree with your given image but I have mentioned @pesehr here to know his idea about it.