passepartout@feddit.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users reportEnglish
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3 months agoIt’s not about authorization. They want to build a knowledge base for when the Great Firewall gets some more filters. Just like russias mirror of wikipedia which is heavily edited to discredit the west.
Tl,dr: About a million dollars annually per employee.