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Unsurprisingly, Russia folder seems to have most “content”. Has China fully blocked Github with their Great Firewall yet?

simse 5y ago
Yes, Github is blocked in China
- jan_Inkepa 5y ago
  I don't believe it is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Blockage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Blockage Says the block was lifted in 2013?
  - 0des 5y ago
    . .
  - teshigahara 5y ago
    Not sure how accurate this website is, but it seems to be blocked currently. http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgith...
  - daqhris 5y ago
    There is a long history of why it's blocked. Some repos were hosting essential code to bypass the Great Firewall. Others were spreading tools to advocates of Free Tibet and Uyghurs. And, there are some software devs who were promoting and supporting workers rights/strikes in the context of 996 scandal. GitHub wasn't freely accessible or access to its services were disturbed during my college years ('12-'16). Any information platform that evades the PRC control system gets blocked once it achieves major attention and onboards influential users.
    - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
      Gotta protect the public from this sort of dangerous activity: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/xi-winnie-rainbow-fart https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/xi-winnie-rainbow-fart
  - simse 5y ago
    That's my mistake, I should have included a source. But the fact remains, it is blocked: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=github.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=github.com.
detuur 5y ago
Most of the recent takedowns from Roskomnadzor seem to be aimed at illegal gambling sites using github for hosting. Almost all of the rest are for deleted gists, so there's no telling what used to be there. I found one surviving gist and it was a list of suicide methods, written in Russian[1]. The only other takedown requests that were still intact were for references to the Hydra marketplace (which I assume many of the gists also referred to), and, amusingly, for a guide on how to dodge Russian conscription[2]. [1]: The same text from what I assume is the original repo: https://github.com/russian-suicide/ololo https://github.com/russian-suicide/ololo [2]: https://wm2ch.github.io/wm2ch/ https://wm2ch.github.io/wm2ch/

simse 5y ago

Yes, Github is blocked in China

jan_Inkepa 5y ago
I don't believe it is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Blockage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Blockage Says the block was lifted in 2013?
- 0des 5y ago
  . .
- teshigahara 5y ago
  Not sure how accurate this website is, but it seems to be blocked currently. http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgith...
- daqhris 5y ago
  There is a long history of why it's blocked. Some repos were hosting essential code to bypass the Great Firewall. Others were spreading tools to advocates of Free Tibet and Uyghurs. And, there are some software devs who were promoting and supporting workers rights/strikes in the context of 996 scandal. GitHub wasn't freely accessible or access to its services were disturbed during my college years ('12-'16). Any information platform that evades the PRC control system gets blocked once it achieves major attention and onboards influential users.
  - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
    Gotta protect the public from this sort of dangerous activity: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/xi-winnie-rainbow-fart https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/xi-winnie-rainbow-fart
- simse 5y ago
  That's my mistake, I should have included a source. But the fact remains, it is blocked: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=github.com http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=github.com.

detuur 5y ago

Most of the recent takedowns from Roskomnadzor seem to be aimed at illegal gambling sites using github for hosting. Almost all of the rest are for deleted gists, so there's no telling what used to be there. I found one surviving gist and it was a list of suicide methods, written in Russian[1]. The only other takedown requests that were still intact were for references to the Hydra marketplace (which I assume many of the gists also referred to), and, amusingly, for a guide on how to dodge Russian conscription[2]. [1]: The same text from what I assume is the original repo: https://github.com/russian-suicide/ololo https://github.com/russian-suicide/ololo [2]: https://wm2ch.github.io/wm2ch/ https://wm2ch.github.io/wm2ch/