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The article seems somewhat unclear on that.

First it says:

Después de que un juez decidiese bloquear sus direcciones web, obligando a sus gestores a migrar dominios y buscar nuevo alojamiento, ahora ha sido GitHub, el servicio propiedad de Microsoft desde junio de 2018, el que ha acabado por bloquear el acceso al repositorio que alojaba la web y la aplicación de la plataforma desde España.

but then:

Pese a que el servicio de 'software' libre estaba entre los objetivos de las autoridades por dar cobijo a la plataforma independentista, fuentes de Microsoft España han confirmado a Teknautas que ellos no han recibido ninguna petición por parte de las fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado para cerrar los repositorios de Tsunami por lo que la decisión se ha tomado a nivel internacional.

I'm not sure exactly what legal obligation Github actually had.

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Could you summarise those paragraphs in English? I am basing my comment on the takedown notice posted on Github, which sounded like they did not have much of an option.

edit: based on the responses below that just says that Microsoft Spain didn't receive a request, not that Microsoft global didn't receive one. And otherwise, where would the request that Github published have come from?!

Using https://www.deepl.com/translator I get the following automated translation:

First quote:

    > After a judge decided to block their web addresses, forcing their managers 
    > to migrate domains and look for new hosting, it has now been GitHub, the 
    > service owned by Microsoft since June 2018, which has ended up blocking 
    > access to the repository that hosted the web and application platform from 
    > Spain.

Second:

    > Although the free software service was among the objectives of the 
    > authorities to give shelter to the independence platform, sources from 
    > Microsoft Spain have confirmed to Teknautas that they have not received any 
    > request from the state security forces to close the Tsunami repositories so 
    > the decision has been taken at the international level.

I'm afraid my Spanish isn't any better than Google Translate's.

As I understand it, the first paragraph says that a judge blocked access to Tsunami Democràtic's domain names (literally "web addresses")

But according to the second paragraph Microsoft Spain denied having received a takedown request for the Github repository from the Spanish security services. It also says that the takedown request must have been made on an international level, but I'm not sure what that could refer to.

Not a judge but the Guardia Civil, which is a police force

Yep, it says that Microsoft Spain has claim that they did not receive any request to take down the repo from the government. Also, the article claims that the journalist tried to contact Github and Microsoft USA but hasn't received a reply. And certainly I don't expect any quick response, they probably need to get the PR department to review any answer.

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