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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP

Once you have logged "China killed 100 Zillion people! End CCP now!" in Chinese GitHub, everyone in China will realize that their lives are actually very bad and they need to do a Revolution immediately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And here I was thinking that might prevent them mirroring the repo but whatever