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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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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 373 points 1 year ago (47 children)

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.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 87 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The real solution is to include a few tiananmenSquare variables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

It's a new coding paradigm, I will take some time getting used to looking for libraries in the uyghur/tianamen folder.

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