I think GitHub is fabulous. I love the service and I think its great as a central place to look for and contribute to open source projects better than options we had before.
But issues like this does clearly show an area of misalignment and conflict of interests.
This isn't a call to move from GitHub wholesale (churning between git hosts isn't an effective use of resources imho), but to build more durability and resiliency into distributed version control systems (Keybase-esque identity management, signing every commit, etc). Just as the Internet Archive and others are championing a distributed web [1], technologists must champion distributed development systems. Perhaps a reasonable target is to be able to perform a "git pull" from IPFS? As Gilmore said [2], interpret censorship as damage and route around it.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=distributed+web
[2] http://kirste.userpage.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-arti... (First Nation in Cyberspace, TIME International - Dec. 6, 1993, No.49)
https://github.com/larsks/git-remote-ipfs https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/git-remote-ipld https://github.com/cryptix/git-remote-ipfs
I'm following Git-SSB and Holochain.
Apart from IPFS, any others you've found?
The code is all open source, and is decently simple to self host if you feel inclined.
People end up getting banned by these companies without any notice, and sometimes without cause.
The problem is not GitHub or MS, the problem is the current law about copyrighted content, tools, fair usage, counter procedures, etc.