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Re:GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic by cptskippy on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:25AM (#21398086)
Your observations are not at odds with what the OP said.

> Github has been honouring government takedowns

The Spanish government requested the information be taken down but only has jurisdiction over it's own users. It therefore makes sense that Github would just restrict access to the content.

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Re:GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic by diggan on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:31AM (#21398819)
Again, they are of course free to do so and I agree that it makes sense for GitHub to honor lawful requests. I was simply observing that I haven't seen GitHub apply take downs geographically before. The cases I've seen before have been global, even if the request came from Russia/China.
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