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Too bad they bent over for Russian government though. I wouldn't bet on Github growing a spine anytime soon. If these attacks continue, Github will delete the m
by Grue3 12y ago
Too bad they bent over for Russian government though. I wouldn't bet on Github growing a spine anytime soon. If these attacks continue, Github will delete the material China wants them to. They already shown weakness once when they censored what Russia wanted to censor.
- mirhagk 12y agoThe difference was that the russian government did actively attack them, it merely was trying to block illegal content. Github didn't remove the repo, they simply blocked that page for russian users. Also the material they were blocking was a suicide poem, and while free speech was being minorly impacted, all in all it's removal didn't affect very many people. In this case china is attacking them directly, and removing the repos in question would affect people's ability to use that software, greatly affecting freedom from censorship for many many people.