Im confused. You said Gio took down his github fork, but his UHC reader fork is still up. It's only his asset pack that is only accessible on that one site owned by the HICU. In fact, Gio only says in his article that his websites relating to the UHC have been taken down.

Also, you say that Gio was the one who took down his github fork (i think u mean website but whatever) and not the DMCA, and you seem to imply that this is some sort of dark, hidden truth, but that's just how DMCAs work. The DMCA notifies someone that they're committing copyright infringement, and that person has to take down the content themselves.

Am I misunderstanding something?

(The rest of this is just my opinion no more questions)

If Gio is lying about this, it would be very, very stupid, because that would actually be libel and Hussie has proven that he's not afraid to take legal action. I don't think Gio would take that risk. Frankly, if he was lying, I would've expected his article to be taken down already given the fallout this situation has already caused in the fandom space.