Programmers angry over blocking of GitHub code-sharing site
Blocking of popular US-based code-sharing site GitHub triggers outpouring of protests
The latest group of mainlanders angered by the "great firewall" is the software-developer community, with its favourite code-sharing site, US-based GitHub, blocked since Monday.
Access appeared to have partially resumed late yesterday.
The blocking triggered a massive outcry from programmers, the loudest since Google closed its Chinese search service on the mainland in 2010.
Kai-Fu Lee, a former president of Google China and now the chief executive of his own venture capital firm, condemned the blocking of GitHub on his microblog on Tuesday night.
He said it made it harder for Chinese programmers to connect with overseas information technology communities and would end up damaging their competitiveness and limiting their vision.
"GitHub has neither ideological nor anti-government content on it. There was no reason to block a site like that," Lee said in the post, which was forwarded more than 70,000 times in 15 hours and attracted 15,100 comments.
