That's a good point. Regardless of ideology, removing repositories like this and not mentioning it in the transparency report doesn't instill a lot of confidenc

That's a good point. Regardless of ideology, removing repositories like this and not mentioning it in the transparency report doesn't instill a lot of confidence in Github's desire to be truly transparent. IMO for Github to be trustworthy, they would only remove repos when required by law and then they should end up in this report.