Employee at Muse Group threatens rival open source developer with deportation to China

looooong GitHub issue that set all this off: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5

this Github repo was a project to use MuseScore's public API to download sheet music, bypassing their normal website.

Muse didn't like that, so they sent the repo a DMCA takedown request.

the developer refuses, there's quite a bit of back-and-forth.

eventually, this is the Director of Strategy at Muse Group, making a thinly veiled threat to have the developer deported to China and treated as a political prisoner:

Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.

the comment in question has since been edited, here's an archived copy of it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335

and GitHub also preserves the edit history, so you can also see the original comment here by hitting the drop-down arrow next to "edited":

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335