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Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question tha

Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China. https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a2aob/.compact https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_f... Now that you guys have had some time to formulate policy do you have any comment?

cl0ckt0wer 6y ago
After what happened to Ma who would criticize the CCP? He has everything to lose.
- dmix 6y ago
  Or Daryl Morey in the NBA. As a fan I've noticed it's really quiet there about China across the league.
- woutr_be 6y ago
  Nobody knows what happened to Jack Ma, it was all speculation based on a single source. The latest news says he is just laying low, but that of course doesn’t make for a good story. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-laying-low-for-the-time-being-not-missing.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...
natfriedman 6y ago
We have a really excellent policy regarding government takedowns: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-government-takedown-policy https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-... Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content removed from GitHub issue a lawful request to us, which we then push to a public repo: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns So you are able to see all of the government takedown requests that we have processed, there. You'll notice that there are only 3 directories in that repo: Russia, China, and Spain. When we do (reluctantly) take down content at the request of a government, we try to limit the takedown only to viewers in the country that made the request, rather than doing a global takedown.

cl0ckt0wer 6y ago

After what happened to Ma who would criticize the CCP? He has everything to lose.

dmix 6y ago
Or Daryl Morey in the NBA. As a fan I've noticed it's really quiet there about China across the league.
woutr_be 6y ago
Nobody knows what happened to Jack Ma, it was all speculation based on a single source. The latest news says he is just laying low, but that of course doesn’t make for a good story. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-laying-low-for-the-time-being-not-missing.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...

natfriedman 6y ago

We have a really excellent policy regarding government takedowns: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-government-takedown-policy https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-... Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content removed from GitHub issue a lawful request to us, which we then push to a public repo: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns So you are able to see all of the government takedown requests that we have processed, there. You'll notice that there are only 3 directories in that repo: Russia, China, and Spain. When we do (reluctantly) take down content at the request of a government, we try to limit the takedown only to viewers in the country that made the request, rather than doing a global takedown.