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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by nick32m on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:39AM (#15407053)
I think they could block that Github repository/repositories but not the entire Github. Also I don't want them to DDOS Github and affect other uses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9275041

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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by ashleycole on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:06AM (#15407378)
They cannot block a specific repo (although GitHub could make it inaccessible to Chinese users, but I don't think they'd want to censor their platform), which is why China resorted to DDOS. I think it really speaks volumes as to how important GitHub currently is to them.
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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by marcosdumay on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:46AM (#15409576)
HTTPS makes it impossible to block only part of the site. At least if they don't push their certs onto the population.
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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by singularity2001 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:05AM (#15407145)
they would have to block all the Forks as well
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