

The GitHub terms of service prohibits illegal use and it reserves the right to remove content at its discretion.

It offers free accounts, a pastebin service called Gist, and free website hosting under its github.io domain. As of November 2015, GitHub reports having over 11.5 million users and over 28.9 million repositories. GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service and is primarily used to host the source code of software, facilitate project management, and provide distributed revision control functionality of Git, access control, wikis, and bug tracking. In all of these cases, GitHub has been eventually unblocked after backlash from users and technology businesses or compliance from GitHub. GitHub has been the target of censorship from governments using methods ranging from local Internet service provider blocks, intermediary blocking using methods such as DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks, and denial-of-service attacks on GitHub's servers from countries including China, India, and Russia.
