It is the same thing I've wondered. What has github done to anybody? Is it for the L0lZ? Is it because they happen to host somebody's gaming code, or IRC code that they feel should be taken offline?

Though when you think about it, taking out github is a very effective way to basically kill the productivity of many dev shops. At the place I'm working now, we are basically dead in the water while github is down (can't do deployments, can't merge pull requests, can't run automated testing, etc).