Yes, this happened at least once before, when the Spanish government asked GitHub to take down repositories related to applications helping citizens to organize

Yes, this happened at least once before, when the Spanish government asked GitHub to take down repositories related to applications helping citizens to organize focused protests: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-23-GuardiaCivil.md https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/20... The group that was focused in the take down requests was "Tsunami Democràtic", which you can find some background information about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Tsunami