Chinese Government Appears To Be Blocking GitHub Via DNS 61
An anonymous reader writes "Reports are coming in that the social coding site GitHub has been blocked in China. While the service has seen blocks in the country before, this appears to be a much broader denial of service, affecting most, if not all users in the world's most populous country online and offline. GitHub released a statement saying: 'GitHub is still investigating, but it does appear that we’re at least being partly blocked by the Great Firewall of China. We’re looking into it, and will update with more information when we have it.'"
Communists Block Communism (Score:2, Funny)
News at 11! ... seriously though you'd think the "communist"/"capitalist" nature of github would appeal to China's government's philosophy or something.
Re:Communists Block Communism (Score:5, Funny)
Finally, we have a retort for all those nutjobs:
Random right-wing American: "Open Source/Free Software/FLOSS is communism!"
Random hacker: "If so, why do the Chinese block it?"