I think this is related to the fact that you can push to GitHub as another user and make the commit appear as it is part of another repo. After the youtube-dl

I think this is related to the fact that you can push to GitHub as another user and make the commit appear as it is part of another repo. After the youtube-dl event many people became aware of those "hacks" because someone used it to "upload youtube-dl into the DMCA's repo". Since those hacks are known by GitHub but they won't fix it, someone thought that the best way to "protest" against the decition was to push GH's source into the DMCA's repo impersonating GH's CEO. That's my theory, a protest. edit: DMCA