I don’t know when Microsoft would cave, but Nepal asking them to remove it probably isn’t going to that level. Maybe they geoblock but I can’t see them removing it for a everyone.
Mastodon’s main code repo is on Github, a government could just pressure MS and that repo is blocked in their borders.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 days ago
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
assuming they have physical servers in their place.
Nope, in that particular case they just have to hand over a strongly worded letter (and a small bribe) to the ISP.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m betting GitHub is not the only place that the code repo is mirrored. Sure, it might be there, but something tells me it’s on a bunch of people’s computers as well, for people who work on it, or have just forked the repository. And there’s probably even copies of it on other mirrors, such as Code Bird, etc. in private repositories.