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So assuming that the Chinese government weaponized their firewall, the question is why are they using it in such a transparent way? Github is pretty firmly in

So assuming that the Chinese government weaponized their firewall, the question is why are they using it in such a transparent way? Github is pretty firmly in the camp of open information, and used by nearly every web software engineer in the world. Surely they're not going to succeed at censoring these projects. As an attempt to project power and send some sort of warning, something about it just seems like a pretty flawed strategy.

allochthon 12y ago
> As an attempt to project power and send some sort of warning, something about it just seems like a pretty flawed strategy. I've been wondering about that myself. Perhaps the lesson to be taken away by most is that if you're not Github, you might not be able to effectively counter such an attack. That could lead to self-censorship.