To a first approximation, nobody cares. Inside particular segments of the tech community, lots of people care. But the tech community is very small on an absolute scale and its segments even smaller.
The other group of people who care are those engaged in ongoing cyber warfare. To them Github is probably not worth defending at the risk of escalating to a wider cyber and economic conflict.
Even should US government cyber warefare assets attribute the attack directly to an entity with a direct relationship to 中华人民共和国 diplomatic corps, why would the US deploy assets to protect a company that is knowingly violating 中华人民共和国 policy? Github is neither required nor prohibited from hosting projects that violate 中华人民共和国 foreign or domestic policy. It has made a business decision for business reasons.
Don't get me wrong, I am not defending 中华人民共和国 policies in regard to the dissemination of information and propaganda [or the US policies regarding the same]. Nor am I criticizing or praising Github's business decisions. I am just explaining what I believe is the case, not what I think should or should not be the case.
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To a first approximation, nobody cares. Inside particular segments of the tech community, lots of people care. But the tech community is very small on an absolute scale and its segments even smaller.
The other group of people who care are those engaged in ongoing cyber warfare. To them Github is probably not worth defending at the risk of escalating to a wider cyber and economic conflict.
Even should US government cyber warefare assets attribute the attack directly to an entity with a direct relationship to 中华人民共和国 diplomatic corps, why would the US deploy assets to protect a company that is knowingly violating 中华人民共和国 policy? Github is neither required nor prohibited from hosting projects that violate 中华人民共和国 foreign or domestic policy. It has made a business decision for business reasons.
Don't get me wrong, I am not defending 中华人民共和国 policies in regard to the dissemination of information and propaganda [or the US policies regarding the same]. Nor am I criticizing or praising Github's business decisions. I am just explaining what I believe is the case, not what I think should or should not be the case.
The U.S. is obligated to protect and defend individuals and corporations that don't violate U.S. policy. Not some foreign policy.
If the U.S. government is not going to protect us from this shit, then what is the purpose of our military?