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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

For example.

But honestly I was more joking. The thing that makes most projects useful is the developers developing it, and they can't clone that

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