Comment by pcr0
7 years ago
> online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control
False (for Chinese residents). China used to block GitHub but stopped doing that when they realized they could politely ask GitHub to block access to certain pages from Chinese IPs. [0]
[0]: https://qz.com/718465/chinas-fierce-censors-try-a-new-tactic...
That appears to be the first and last time they received a request from China. https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
On the other hand, Russia...
Interesting. I'm curious about whether the time they hijacked Baidu Analytics to launch a huge denial of service attack against GitHub was considered "politely" asking or not.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. I wonder if anything will happen with this protest then. For communists, the Chinese government isn't fond of labor protests.