EDIT: Just read the README of the gov-takedowns repo and GitHub takes a much saner approach than I thought they did, so kudos to them. If the letter appears in

EDIT: Just read the README of the gov-takedowns repo and GitHub takes a much saner approach than I thought they did, so kudos to them. If the letter appears in the official "gov-takedowns" repo, does that mean the content was actually taken down? I find this whole trend quite worrying, where private companies based in one country, comply with the court orders of another country. Sure, they are allowed to, but what motivates them? Do they genuinely think they are helping the world? Are they worried about bad press? The freedom of information and thought seems like an ideal that has been lost from most major sites nowadays and isn't coming back.