It’s to do with the definition of Social Media in the legislation. If you can make comments that anyone on the Internet can read from your account, then you qualify as social media. That’s an incidental aspect of what GitHub does, so it makes perfect sense for that site to be excluded from the ban.
Comment on These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change
PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Why the hell is Github even on this list?
Nath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
No1@aussie.zone 1 day ago
BECAUSE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS COMMUNIST AND THE SPAWN OF SATAN HIMSELF!!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
They don’t want the kids to see all the forking going on