@amszmidt Yeah I read you loud and clear - I'm being a bit difficult on purpose.

Let's say it is decided that your QIC-tape is too obscure or otherwise difficult to access to fulfil the requirement (although I do actually have several drives ;). At which point does a site like GitHub stop being acceptable? How many and which countries, browsers, user agents, IP ranges, etc do they have to block? How many captchas and trackers do they have to implement before it becomes too discriminating?

The answer is probably that the line is drawn closer to your tapes than to anything GitHub is likely to do in the foreseeable future. The word "likely" may end up doing some heavy lifting there, though.

I know this is not currently a "big enough" problem to warrant my harping on this - but recent events has caused me great pause in how I deal with centralised, corporately-run services that want or need to comply with the whims of an unpredictable government. Especially when I depend on them for anything but entertainment..

@mms @agreeable_landfall