Talk:Censorship of GitHub

Full of america propaganda
This is 100% american trash. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.37.18.72 (talk) 16:19, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Sources for DDOS attack
Here are a lot of sources I found that you can use for fleshing out the section on the March 2015 DDOS attack on GitHub. I'm sure there are plenty more sources including more from GitHub too if you look. I think we could also have a subsection on the great cannon since that was used for the first time to target GitHub.


 * http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/github-battles-largest-ddos-in-sites-history-targeted-at-anti-censorship-tools
 * http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/massive-denial-of-service-attack-on-github-tied-to-chinese-government/
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-to-attack-github-by-diverting-web-traffic.html
 * https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/chinese-authorities-compromise-millions-cyberattacks
 * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/31/github_attack_day_4_activists_point_fingers_at_china
 * http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940
 * https://status.github.com/messages/2015-04-01
 * http://www.vox.com/2015/3/30/8315281/github-chinese-ddos-attacks
 * http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/27/8299555/github-china-ddos-censorship-great-firewall
 * http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32138088
 * http://www.techrepublic.com/article/chinese-government-linked-to-largest-ddos-attack-in-github-history/
 * http://fortune.com/2015/04/03/github-ddos-china/
 * http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/30/china-github-internet-activists-cyber-attack
 * http://motherboard.vice.com/read/did-china-just-launch-a-cyber-attack-on-github
 * https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150331/07002030498/chinas-great-firewall-turned-around-why-china-wants-to-censor-global-internet.shtml

China's Great Cannon Opencooper (talk) 14:12, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
 * http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%27s-Man-on-the-Side-Attack-on-GitHub

thanks. any clue why no one did this? Happy  monsoon  day   02:16, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

More sources

 * http://qz.com/718465/chinas-fierce-censors-try-a-new-tactic-with-github-asking-nicely/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/greatfire-activist-urges-western-firms-to-help-end-chinese-censorship

Opencooper (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/26/china-tightens-noose-internet-anti-censorship-tool/
 * https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/speech-enables-speech-china-takes-aim-its-coders
 * http://www.pcworld.com/article/2977109/china-intensifies-internet-censorship-ahead-of-military-parade.html
 * http://motherboard.vice.com/read/github-hit-by-ddos-attack-again

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