China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

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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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I see it more as a good anti-Microsoft argument 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Why does no one say murder is bad unless China is murdering”

Isn’t a good anti-murder argument

“Why does no one say murder is bad unless China is murdering”

I can not fathom how you absolutely nailed the essence of my comment, yet misunderstood it (and - arguably - your own example) so fundamentally.

Let me try to help, once:

"Why do most people not complain about murder when Microsoft is doing it, but when China is doing it, the very justified outrage can be heard?"

I cannot fathom how you absolutely nailed the essence of my comment, yet misunderstood it (and - arguably - your own example) so fundamentally.

People do criticize Microsoft for using open source data to train LLMs, just like people criticize murder

Hence the query about having never been on the internet before