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.'"
Duh! (Score:5, Insightful)
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/21/1644254/oreilly-giving-away-open-government-as-aaron-swartz-tribute [slashdot.org]
through github....
Open Government (Score:5, Insightful)
The rise of Chinese economy and sinophobia (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, I think quite a lot of people in the west are afraid of the rise of Chinese economy, fearing that China is going to take over the world one day. I think it is exactly this kind of behaviour that is causing the fear. I am from China. I think China is basically like Soviet Union with slightly more freedom and better economy. The political structure and censorship process are both still very Soviet-like. This kind of news does not do any good for China's international image. Most people in west don't want the world to be ruled by a nation that does not allow people's mind to be free. I personally don't want my thought process to be dictated by the commies from Beijing.
Re:China... (Score:4, Insightful)
Good luck with that considering many of the parts in our computers and communications hardware built in China have serious security compromises in the form of back doors.
People's Republic of China (Score:3, Insightful)