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In 2017, GitHub received eight requests—all from Russia—resulting in eight projects being taken down or blocked (all or part of six repositories, one gist, and
by ry_ry 8y ago
In 2017, GitHub received eight requests—all from Russia—resulting in eight projects being taken down or blocked (all or part of six repositories, one gist, and one website taken down).
Huh, seems odd. Any particular reason they all originated in Russia?
- danielvf 8y agoYou can see the text of all takedown notices from Russia here: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia
- ry_ry 8y agooh cool, thanks! for anybody who cba to take a proper look but is idly curious, a quick browse of the stuff they pulled turned up... * a couple of duped windows installers for... something... i'm not brave enough to run. * something linked to a betting site * an IP anonymiser * an encoded block of JSON that is named enc_sources.json * an issue raised with GreatWall (who apparently monitor and challenge Chinese internet censorship) * a free web proxy * and weirdly, a single commit to objidlib "A library for working with NTFS Object Idenitifers".