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Discussion on: GitLab joined legalized discrimination. Why does no one talk about this?

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Thibault Milan • Edited

That's why China is creating their own Github like service. To prevent any U.S. disruption in the likely scenario where Github & Gitlab will be forced also to cut access to Chinese people from their services :(

It's really sad to see a company like Gitlab (which have European entities that would be able to provide such services without having ton comply to U.S. law), especially since they were advertising themself as "less evil" and "more open" than Github :/

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webbureaucrat

China itself has more than once launched massive DDOS attacks against GitHub in hopes of taking GitHub offline, so it doesn't make any sense to say that the main reason why they're building their own site is to prevent US censorship. wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcac...

China is building their own git hosting site so they can block the others.

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Thibault Milan

Don't mistake Chinese gov. from Chinese companies. That's not the government that is building a GitHub-like platform. Plus you are talking about something happened in 2015, your source said the 2018 hack can't be linked to the Chinese gov.