Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest “996” work culture
Filters block access to words … Tweets: @realnewschina : GitHub isn't just an online platform for programmers around the world to share their code. In China, it's also a place where sleep-deprived tech workers complain about unreasonable work schedules. https://www.sixthtone.com/... pic.twitter.com/olcdSpX7yJ Yuan Yang / @yuanfenyang : An extremely fun story to report. A rare display of labour organising in China: “The movement is being organised by volunteers on collaborative platforms — primarily Microsoft's GitHub, used for code-sharing, as well as Slack, used for messaging” (1/n) https://www.ft.com/... Parker Higgins / @xor : Yikes: it's not confirmed to be governmental, but this kind of browser-level censorship represents a pretty significant escalation from traditional network-level efforts http://www.theverge.com/... Jeremy "Jake Jortles" Hsu / @jeremyhsu : See this @YuanfenYang column for more on China's conundrum regarding Github and censorship. The platform is “essential for many Chinese companies as a collaborative coding platform” and so blocking it outright would be a tough financial pill to swallow. https://www.ft.com/... Patrick Howell O'Neill / @howelloneill : Tencent: Great company, great values, definitely the place you wanna go get your investment money from http://www.theverge.com/... Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : Chinese tech bros and sis have found a rare place (Github) where they can protest against long working hours, chant Marxist slogans and talk about unionizing https://inks.tn/8w1dwf via @InkstoneNews