GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users’ repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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    5 months ago

    Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.

    • Colonel Panic@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      You’ve heard of CamelCase and lowercase and intVariableName variable naming styles. Get ready for:

      for (int Taiwan == 0; Taiwan < HongKong; Taiwan++) { int TianamenSquare == 0; … }

    • Tramort@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      That’s the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.

      • Morphit @feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        How will they filter it out? If they just don’t mirror anything with ‘forbidden’ terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they’ll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP

      Once you have logged “China killed 100 Zillion people! End CCP now!” in Chinese GitHub, everyone in China will realize that their lives are actually very bad and they need to do a Revolution immediately.