GitHub is private property, and they have the right to eject anyone from their property for any reason or even no reason at all.
And the code is open-source under the MIT license, so GitHub can do with it as they see fit.
And the code is open-source under the MIT license, so GitHub can do with it as they see fit.
You can copy it and claim ownership over that, but it doesn’t allow you to remove the author from their work and then keep the work as your own.
The author has a right to delete it if they want to.