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Github hosting is not the be all and end all of open source software development. There are alternatives, ranging from hosting on one of the Chinese public clouds, using 'bulletproof' hosts that cater to such things as phishing groups, cutting a deal with the Russian mob to host development in Russia, hosting on an .onion site, or making connections with the Pirate Bay folks.

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So the alternatives are groups associated with authoritarian regimes, pishing groups and mobs?

"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

This isn't all that different from the fact that sites which prominently support free speech attract all the extremists, because that's the only place they have.

Hah I came to post with that quote in mind. But really, if the legal system is abused to remove tools that are legal but the rich and powerful don't like, they'll migrate to places where the law can't touch them.

Git can be cloned via HTTP and it's so easy to set up that people have accidentally done it. There are loads of web shops that accidentally disclosed source code by way of having their Git deploy repo in their Apache webroot. You could literally "git clone http://poorsuckersblog.com/" and get everything.

That domain appears to be unregistered, don't know if anyone is looking for a good domain -- if so, you may have found it.

or just literally host a web page yourself with a link to a git repo, also on your server. All this centralization of git is silly

That's because the whole point of github is not hosting, it's the collaboration. This is where centralization helps.

I would certainly think twice about contributing to YouTube-dl for my legal safety now...

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