However, this website is still blocked in Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions. He derided the block, saying: "Blocking GitHub is unjustifiable, and will only derail the nation's programmers from the world, while bringing about a loss in competitiveness and insight." Lee's post was shared over 80,000 times. Kai-Fu Lee brought attention to the block after posting about it on Sina Weibo. The block was lifted on Januafter an online protest on Sina Weibo. Confirming the block, a spokesperson for GitHub said: "It does appear that we're at least being partly blocked by the Great Firewall of China".
It was reported that the attack was carried out in response to political information posted on the platform. On January 21, 2013, GitHub was blocked in China using DNS hijacking. Test results from showing that GitHub was blocked from within China GitHub uses HTTPS for its connections, making data more secure against interception from third parties.
Users can fork (copy and individually develop) other projects, which GitHub does not automatically take down when served DMCA takedown notices. The GitHub terms of service prohibits illegal use and it reserves the right to remove content at its discretion. It offers free accounts, a pastebin service called Gist, and free website hosting under its github.io domain. As of November 2015, GitHub reports having over 11.5 million users and over 28.9 million repositories. GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service and is primarily used to host the source code of software, facilitate project management, and provide distributed revision control functionality of Git, access control, wikis, and bug tracking.
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