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They get to dictate to Microsoft what is and isn’t allowed on github.com. Microsoft will not fight a 1A battle against one of their biggest and oldest partners.

Not only are they one of their largest customers, they have physical control over the place where Microsoft and GitHub staff live and work.

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... you mean the US, possibly allies? Not only is that broad enough to be meaningless, I don't know offhand of any military going to someone's house to require them (by force I assume) to change their GitHub repo name. What are you getting at?

I'm getting at the fact that Wikileaks can't have private GitHub repos that are actually private.

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