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Forks are easy for Github to shut down simultaneously. What you really want is to upload the code as a new repo (ideally a different name from the original one). But it shouldn't be too hard in practice to detect uploading the same codebase as one that's taken down if that's desired.

[raesene9]

but once forked people will have local copies, that can be put up onto other sites, if GH take them down.