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The Chinese government’s control of the Internet passes through regular waves of enhanced repression, often tied to a significant political event or protest. While Github has not commented on the source of the current attack, the evidence strongly suggests that a previous DDoS against Github in March was conducted by the Chinese government to pressure the company to remove the repositories of two other anti-censorship programs. Github, the host for both repositories, reported a DDoS attack on the days between these two incidents. The author deleted that comment too shortly afterwards. Today they asked me to delete all the code from Github.

Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this.

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In a comment on the now empty Github archive Clowwindy wrote in English: Clowwindy also deleted his or her Github repositories last week. Clowwindy was the chief developer of ShadowSocks, another tool that circumvented the Great Firewall of China by creating an encrypted tunnel between a simple server and a portable client. We can guess what caused Phus Lu to erase over four years’ work on an extremely popular program from the brief comments of another Chinese anti-censorship programmer, Clowwindy. That essay was originally published in 1974 on the day of the Russian dissident’s arrest for treason. Phus Lu’s Twitter account's historywas also deleted, except for a single tweet that linked to a Chinese translation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Live Not By Lies”.

Phus Lu, the developer, renamed the repository’s description to “Everything that has a beginning has an end”. The maintainer of GoAgent, one of China's more popular censorship circumvention tools emptied out the project's main source code repositories on Tuesday.

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