GitHub Has Become a Haven for China’s Censored Internet Users

Thousands of posts by China’s beleaguered tech workers have deluged GitHub in the last month protesting “996” schedules — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — and demanding better working conditions. Then in 2015, GitHub was briefly taken offline by a DDoS attack, or distributed denial of service — then the largest ever recorded — from servers later traced back to Chinese state telecom giant China Unicom. The original GitHub 996 project has now spawned regional meetup groups in southern China, where many tech companies have offices, as well as offshoot chat groups for specific tech sectors

Organizers have also crowdsourced an employers “blacklist” containing dozens of companies that they say have illegally forced employees to work more than 70 hours a week and written petitions to Chinese government ministries, including the state labor union.

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