> Yep. If you want to access your blocked private repo, you literally have to let everyone access it. And you can’t even delete it afterwards.

One must wonder just how many companies with juicy trade secrets situated in a nation with adversarial relations to the US are hosting that juicy data in the US, with a US corporation.

Given that the public, open-source situation is not changed this is starting to sound like a tempest in a teacup.

Couldn't one temporarily travel outside of the affected regions to access their private repos normally?

Github does have an appeal process if the algorithm mistakenly tagged you. I’m not sure what proof they ask for.