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> repos being taken down via DMCA or Russia blocking GitHub until they started to cooperate with the censors

Is this not the case with other hosts? If Gitlab got a DMCA notice, would they not be forced to comply? I don't think this is a good argument against Github.

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Being removed from one of many interchangeable hosting services is one thing. Being removed from the one central service that everyone around insists on using is another. GitHub, due to it's extreme popularity and centralized nature, is becoming the global gatekeeper for the programming community.

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