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kuschku on June 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tmux has left SourceForge

But that doesn’t happen – if a repo violates US law, they remove it completely, even if it would have been completely fine under German law, for example.

jffry on June 4, 2015 | [–]

If GitHub is hosted in the US, and a repo that is hosted by GitHub violates US law, they probably cannot continue to host that repo in the US and serve it only to non-US clients.

joshuapants on June 4, 2015 | [–]

Is that because their servers are in the US? A bit different in that case.

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