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A Draft Of TikTok’s Plan To Avoid A Ban Gives The U.S. Government Unprecedented Oversight Power (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because GitHub has load balances that direct traffic occasionally through a server hosted under Chinese jurisdiction.

Where the hell did you get that from? Do you have a source for that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US government as I work for them. The IP in question is blocked for that reason.

Edit: Slack was also intermittent a few years back due to the same kind of situation. China owns a decent amount of internet infrastructure. It's fine for normal traffic as TLS and the like is enough for the average person, but the US government doesn't risk it on their administrative or development networks.