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To block the 996 Github presence on Github would mean to block Github, as Github is served via HTTPS. That's not viable as Github is far too useful to block (IIRC it and StackOverflow were blocked a couple of years ago but then unblocked due to uproar from the tech industry).

To block Github 966 pages specifically means the domestic browsers are pre-filtering URL requests before they're made. And that means these domestic browsers are pre-filtering all URL requests, HTTPS or not, VPN or not.

Perhaps all forms on pages loaded by these browsers are also being eavesdropped.

Safe to say any secure experience under these browsers is compromised.

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I really wonder if someone could start a GitHub repo mirroring, e.g., news articles that are censored by various governments. Could be a nice way of making censorship difficult.

http://lite.cnn.io/ would be a great candidate site for easy publishing to Github in some sort of markdown.

Of course I imagine there would be license problems.

Yeah. It wouldn't even just be news--historical documents could also be helpful.

Reminds me of NPM been blocked in China so CNPM appears to mirror nodejs packages.

CNPM is now better known as https://npm.taobao.org/

What's there to prevent private organizations censorships?

Too useful to block is a concept China doesn’t acknowledge. Too troublesome to not block is how it operates.

Unabashed orientalism. China blocks as a means of self preservation.

IIRC from a previous discussion on HN, those browsers are essentially a VPN with a MITM proxy, and obviously trust the company's own certificates.

I believe that proxy does have other more benevolent uses than censorship, which is why people use those browsers in the first place.

doesnt china MITM https connections?

They don't. They "blacklist" block by ip-address. At least that was what seemed to be going on the last time I was there.

It was fairly easy to bypass; I did it with a SSH-tunnel other people do it with VPN. It seem like a completely normal thing (amongst Chinese and certainly expats) to have a VPN.

I am pretty sure since this 996-protest movement concerns tech workers that it will spread with no problem.

Also it will probably get resolved in some manner since working 996 obviously is beyond peak productivity.

SSH-tunnel will quickly degrade in throughput if you use it to breach the GFW. Some kind of traffic analysis I think. You need other tools to bypass GFW consistently.

I remember watching a TV show on dr.dk through SSH in China. Not because the GFW blocked dr.dk but because dr.dk didn't allow foreign IP-addresses to watch some of their shows.

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