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In this year’s numbers-based reporting, which includes our January-June 2021 report, GitHub continued to focus on areas of strong interest from developers and the general public, such as requests we receive from governments-whether for information about our users or to take down content posted by our users-and copyright-related takedowns. Before removing content based on alleged circumvention of copyright controls (under Section 1201 of the US DMCA or similar laws in other countries), we carefully review both the legal and technical claims, and we sponsor a Developer Defense Fund to provide developers with meaningful access to legal resources.įocus areas for this year’s reporting, including what’s new.Restricting access to content only in those jurisdictions where it is illegal (geoblocking), rather than removing it for all users worldwide.Providing users an opportunity to remediate or remove specific content rather than blocking entire repositories, when we see that is possible.Aligning our Acceptable Use Policies with restrictions on free expression, for example, on hate speech, under international human rights law.We limit content removal, in line with lawful limitations, as much as possible by: Publicly posting all Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and government takedown requests we process in a public repository in real time, and sending DMCA notices to the Lumen database.Allowing users to appeal removal of their content.

Notifying users when we need to restrict content, along with our reasons, whenever possible.

Explaining our reasons for making policy decisions.

Developing our policies in public by open sourcing them so that our users can provide input and track changes.

We also continue to follow the guidelines related to promoting transparency and taking the most narrow approach possible when restricting content, set forth in the United Nations report on content moderation. GitHub was honored to contribute to the updated principles, and we’ve made significant changes to our reporting forms, clarifications to our policies, and additions to our reporting in several categories as we work to ensure that our transparency reporting continues to reflect the spirit of the Santa Clara Principles.

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With that in mind, we’ve published transparency reports going back seven years to inform the developer community about GitHub’s content moderation and disclosure of user information.Ī key development in the transparency reporting space was the 2021 update of the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation. This kind of transparency is vital because of the potential impacts to people’s privacy, access to information, and ability to dispute decisions that affect their content.

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This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption of software projects, protecting developer privacy, taking action on abusive content, and being transparent with developers about content moderation and disclosure of user information.

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At GitHub, we put developers first and work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration.

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