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I find it interesting that they removed user and repo names from the Spanish notice, but kept links in the Chinese and Russian ones.
by kozhevnikov 7y ago
I find it interesting that they removed user and repo names from the Spanish notice, but kept links in the Chinese and Russian ones.
- starfox64_ 7y agoGDPR
- chrismeller 7y agoThey don’t include the court order itself, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some additional clause (similar to the gag order in a US NSL) that forbids Github from revealing the specific target of the order.
- tomjen3 7y agoIn that case, how would it possibly have any legal effect in the US?
- chrismeller 7y agoThey restricted access to the repo itself in the jurisdiction covered by it. Their takedown repo isn’t restricted, so it makes sense that they would just redact the relevant parts so it’s obvious they were forced to take down something. Kind of a lesser of evils. Yes, we could blacklist all of Spain from seeing the takedown request and publish it in its entirety. Instead a bit of a screw you to the Spanish government. We can’t say what we had to blacklist, but we had to blacklist something, so wink wink, nudge nudge.
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