PUPureParadigm·May 4, 2019
One counter example is GreatFire, who use GitHub for their wiki [1].
[1] https://github.com/greatfire/wiki
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesMost people might not know what kind of organization GreatFire really is because too much context is missing. I only discovered recently it's not so simple. There have been a lot of talks about the behavior of GreatFire for quite for a while but most of the talks are in Chinese. There are some in English though, to give everybody a glimpse here is an example:
https://github.com/greatfire/wiki/issues/1
I have an impression is GreatFire tried to weaponize all the users of github. They succeeded.
I don't like the GFW either. But I think I'm very likely to be downvoted because the context of this incident is quite complicated. It's not easy to tell the truth especially when it's against most people's belief.
In China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHubThey already did. See their wiki https://github.com/greatfire/wiki
They are hosting mirrors on Akamai, Azure, Cloudfront.
They previously hosted on Amazon S3 and Cloudflare, they were blocked in China already
In China Just Blocked Thousands of WebsitesI shared this, because I think the issues section is worth reading. Apparently some sort of circumvention going on, as Github.com is not blocked by China's firewall
https://github.com/greatfire/wiki/issues
In Greatfire Wiki – GitHub