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submitted 3 months ago by 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 370 points 3 months ago

Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 86 points 3 months ago

That's the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

The real solution is to include a few tiananmenSquare variables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

It's a new coding paradigm, I will take some time getting used to looking for libraries in the uyghur/tianamen folder.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

For example.

But honestly I was more joking. The thing that makes most projects useful is the developers developing it, and they can't clone that

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

China filters every byte of Internet traffic in and out of the country.

It seems naive to think they can't accomplish the same thing for a GitHub mirror.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

They're not supposed to, it's just about blocking them from using the software :)

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