github/gov-takedowns resource
Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3739
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 15
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3181 stars · 183 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A public archive of government takedown notices received by GitHub, posted verbatim for transparency. It documents content removal requests based on local laws without endorsing their claims.
Use cases
- research government censorship requests on GitHub
- analyze takedown notice trends by country
- study internet censorship and free speech
- track which repositories were blocked by governments
- build a dataset of legal removal requests
When to choose
- you need primary-source government takedown notices for research or journalism
- you want to audit GitHub's content removal transparency
When to avoid
- you need a tool or API for processing takedowns
- you expect legal judgments about the validity of notices
Facets
dataset · maturity active
documentation privacy legal privacy censorship-circumvention developer-tools transparency government-takedown-notices censorship free-speech corpus web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns · fetched 2026-08-28 · e9ee1c9ba5b0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| github/gov-takedowns | main | 76 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="github/gov-takedowns")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem