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> online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control False (for Chinese residents). China used to block GitHub but stopped doing that whe
by pcr0 8y ago
> online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control
False (for Chinese residents). China used to block GitHub but stopped doing that when they realized they could politely ask GitHub to block access to certain pages from Chinese IPs. [0]
[0]: https://qz.com/718465/chinas-fierce-censors-try-a-new-tactic-with-github-asking-nicely/ https://qz.com/718465/chinas-fierce-censors-try-a-new-tactic...
- 07d046 8y agoInteresting, I wasn't aware of that. I wonder if anything will happen with this protest then. For communists, the Chinese government isn't fond of labor protests.
- smudgymcscmudge 8y agoThat appears to be the first and last time they received a request from China. https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns On the other hand, Russia...
- teknologist 8y agoInteresting. I'm curious about whether the time they hijacked Baidu Analytics to launch a huge denial of service attack against GitHub was considered "politely" asking or not.