Blocking of coding site has Chinese programmers up in arms

Kai-Fu Lee’s post on Sina Weibo that condemns the blocking of the code-sharing site GitHub.

Chinese censors might believe the Great Firewall is their best tool to block everything online that might threaten state security from outside. However, the wall has in fact become a powerful accelerator of social unrest within the country.

The latest group of mainlanders angered by the GFW is the software developer community, as their favourite code-sharing site, US-based GitHub, has been blocked since Monday afternoon.

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