As the article points out, Github remains unblocked due to it's economic importance to developers, despite it hosting material such as the 996 protest. If Gith

As the article points out, Github remains unblocked due to it's economic importance to developers, despite it hosting material such as the 996 protest. If Github were to be rebuilt in China, I do not believe that it would be redesigned with decentralization as a guiding principle. The Government would view this as a great opportunity to 'fix' issues with the current setup. The replacement would be receive funding from the Government and it would be designed with national interests (as defined by the Government) forefront in mind. The good news is that according to @decster in a cousin comment, it may be the case that the Government is sufficiently incompetent that this may not be a risk. On the other hand, incompetence in Government hasn't stopped bad ideas from being forced on people in the past, so...