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Shaping laws, regulations, norms, and standard practices—policies—to promote the interests of developers and good social outcomes from the software revolution.

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  1. Nov 19

    Take action: DMCA rules are under review, and you have an opportunity to help shape the anti-circumvention landscape.

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  2. Nov 17

    Register to join our own this weekend to discuss global content moderation alongside and at this workshop:

    Join us on Nov 20-21: Moderate Globally, Impact Locally: The Global Impacts of Content Moderation Hosted by !
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  3. Nov 16

    With your feedback, we've just merged changes to improve our site policies. Learn more:

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  4. Nov 16

    Thread from our CEO 👇

    We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl.
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  5. Nov 16

    Our priority is the developer community. Today we reinstated youtube-dl repo:

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  6. Retweeted
    Nov 2

    Don’t delay, commit your vote on election day!

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  7. Oct 27

    We work with developers to address DMCA takedowns in accordance with our policies. For more on our policies, see . (2/2)

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  8. Oct 27

    The DMCA takedown of the youtube-dl repo is a clear example of the regulatory challenges facing developers. GitHub exists to support developers, and we’ve been in contact with owners of impacted repositories to navigate the process for reinstatement on the platform. (1/2)

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  9. Retweeted
    Oct 24

    This U.S. election season make a plan to vote. Want to make voting better? Make a plan to contribute to open source voting software projects. Read on for some places to get started.

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  10. Retweeted
    Oct 20

    We’ve opened a notice and comment period (made pull requests in github/site-policy) for our Terms of Service, Privacy Statement, and other policies. Also learn about these updates, and a reminder our policies are openly licensed for reuse.

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  11. Oct 16

    ICYMI "Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle" now on the GitHub blog. Added: links to oral arguments, a key brief from computer scientists, and a history of copyright, the software industry, and APIs

    Google v. Oracle will shape developer opportunity years to come. The U.S. Supreme Court should stand by developers and uphold their right to reimplement APIs, transfer skills, and innovate without interference.
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    Oct 9

    * Personal update * I’ve started a new role at ! drives collaboration on software, open source, and AI research. I’m excited to shape public policy globally to promote developers and their collaboration. If you have ideas on how we can help, please reach out!

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  13. Oct 7

    Collaborative software development relies on legal safe harbors, and GitHub advocates to protect them as part of our commitment to protecting developers’ freedoms to build, create, and innovate. Learn more about legal safe harbors in our blog:

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  14. Oct 6

    "It took 7 years of back and forth and special permission from the Supreme Court of the United States to open this github repo, so we're happy today."

    Public Resource and our good friends at are pleased to announce that the Official Code of Georgia Annotated is now a github repo! ht
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  15. Oct 6

    Google v. Oracle will shape developer opportunity years to come. The U.S. Supreme Court should stand by developers and uphold their right to reimplement APIs, transfer skills, and innovate without interference.

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    Sep 1

    This U.S. election season GitHub is encouraging our employees and developers in the U.S. to register, vote, and help run elections. Here are some resources

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  17. Jul 2

    The helps developers work on open source tools that protect privacy & security for the most vulnerable. Many of us rely on infrastructure they've supported. We're proud to join the call to & (and you can too).

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  18. Jun 24

    . has been there to support open source security and fight for internet freedom. Many of us rely on tools OTF has supported, and now OTF needs our help. GitHub signed telling Congress to support OTF. You can too.

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  19. Apr 21

    Immigrants have always been vital to the US economy and to GitHub. Potential exec order to “temporarily suspend immigration” adds uncertainty and anguish for developers, will slow recovery and hinder innovation. We need immigrants to get us through this & help us move forward.

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    Apr 1

    Calling all technologists and ops specialists: California needs you! We’re looking for technologists and ops specialists who are excited and passionate about helping government better serve people.

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