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Comment by oarsinsync | Hacker News Reader

Looks like the app repo is at https://github.com/s3rrallonga/tsunami

It appears to still be online from UK, dunno about ES

That one seems to be a cloned repo, the blocked one is at https://github.com/tsunamidemocratic/tsunamidemocratic.githu...

It returns a "Repository unavailable in your location" message, which is kind of ironic since the website itself is still accessible from https://tsunamidemocratic.github.io

https://github.com/s3rrallonga/tsunami is the repo linked to by the website at https://github.com/tsunamidemocratic/tsunamidemocratic.githu..., and there have been no further commits to the website in the last 12 days, while the takedown is from the last 24 hours.

Based on your comment, it suggests that the takedown request is for the website, not the application repo, which is interesting in a way.

Repositories are hosted on GitHub, and unless GitHub explicitly blocked those with Spanish source IP addresses, there's no way a Spanish ISP can block us access to a repo unless they block GitHub altogether.

Correct. Github was issued with a takedown notice in this instance. Checkout their readme[0] where it states:

> When we receive a notice from an official government agency that identifies illegal content and specifies the source of the illegality, we ... limit the geographic scope of the takedown when possible and include that as part of the notification

[0] https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/README.m...

Still online with a Spanish IP as of now

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