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Re:Securing a laptop for travel to China by e12e on Saturday June 17, 2017 @11:26AM (#14576268)
Does anyone know the story behind:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks

"Removed according to regulations." vs:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master

Is it the shadowsocks project dancing around github censorship, or github allowing ss to dance around chinese censorship?

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Re:Securing a laptop for travel to China by auganov on Saturday June 17, 2017 @11:38AM (#14576321)
TLDR: Police asked the developer to stop working on it. (and judging by their Twitter activity, no crazy stuff happened)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150822042959/https://github.co...

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Re:Securing a laptop for travel to China by e12e on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:02PM (#14576665)
Right, but the code is still there, still being developed, just on the master branch? That doesn't really square with "stopped working on it" - unless it's just a sham to dodge the police - but that sounds pretty dangerous? (As opposed to, say have someone else host it, host it in a new place etc).
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