The real reason is almost certainly something along the lines of 'it's possible we could get sued for libel' or 'we have been threatened with a libel suit'. Not that such a case would ever go anywhere, but I imagine they figure that it's more trouble than it's worth.
Re:GitHub censored my research data
by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday October 15, 2016 @10:05AM
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They have safe harbor protection.
I'm not sure if GL is trying to protect themselves against something and are making up some excuse to justify it but the reasons given for taken down the list don't hold water.
GL would be far better stating the real reason for taking the info down (surely there must be one).
So far what they've done is seemingly to protect the merchants reputation and perhaps protect GL from some imagined legal backlash? The backlash would have no basis is court or other services like Google's own SafeBrowing would not be viable.
Are we to assume the GL cares more about that than users/visitors to these sites?
The statement from GP is frankly pathetic.