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by user5994461 1312 days ago
I've been trying to find a legal page with legal contact for GitHub since the topic was opened, with no success.

The only contact information I can find is this email for privacy requests, which should be good enough, they have to process legal requests they receive privacy@github.com

For Microsoft there is this Page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/policies AskCELA@microsoft.com

It's not clear from your messages whether you are a subscriber or your organization is a subscriber or both or neither. This affects how to access support and escalate and what claims you may have (your company should have a contract with access to enterprise support if they are customers).

It's not reasonable for GitHub to ban you with no justification and no recourse and make you lose your job.

Get a lawyer yourself. Or get your company to escalate through their support channel or legal.

Warning: We only have one side of the story. If you were posting abusive messages to Github in your name and/or in the company name, on company time. The company may review the messages and may find them abusive too and may fire you.

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Some messages could be viewed as flame/kind of abusive in the sense of criticizing a msft open source project, and they were absolutely not made in the company’s name. Obviously I deeply regret any trouble they could have caused.

Msft said it was a GitHub decision, they can’t interfere.

I would expect MSFT to process official legal requests they receive for themselves and their subsidiaries.

EDIT: After more digging, I found the contact, the terms of services here https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t... are linking to this legal section here https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/g... that contains address and email for legal requests. This is incorrectly put in a page "Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data" but it's not about data request, it's for all legal requests.