I dunno if this applies to every case but I'll point out that doing that preserves the repo at a point in time from deletion but using GitHub's disk space, whic

I dunno if this applies to every case but I'll point out that doing that preserves the repo at a point in time from deletion but using GitHub's disk space, which is why there's a storm of them for any socially problematic repo. I'm aware the DMCA takedowns can easily target the forks but it's easy to take your chances