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Re:We Chat, They Watch by bgee on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:35AM (#23111704)
Disclaimer: mainland Chinese here.

> most major domains outside of China are blocked

I don't think this is true; GFW works in a disallow-list fashion and domains have to be explicitly blocked (which is why people do keyword attacks[0]).

[0]: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by cirosantilli on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:44AM (#23112991)
Certainly the block is manually controlled.

But I believe that GitHub is not blocked yet just because it is not "major" enough because it is used almost exclusively only by programmers.

If non-programmers started to use it more, I believe it will get banned.

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by pta2002 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:15AM (#23113912)
GitHub's been banned in the past. It made development work near impossible, so they unbanned it.
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