# github/gov-takedowns

Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices.

Repository: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gov-takedowns
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-18T17:08:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3739, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3181, forks 183 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:47.810178+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, privacy
- domain: legal, privacy, censorship-circumvention, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: transparency, government-takedown-notices, censorship, free-speech, corpus, web-server

## Member repositories
- github/gov-takedowns (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:47.810178+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:25:04.288666+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:47.810178+00:00, sha e9ee1c9ba5b0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.