China Orders Code-Sharing App GitHub to Take Down Posts in Latest Censorship Attempt

China Orders Code-Sharing App GitHub to Take Down Posts in Latest Censorship Attempt
The GitHub homepage through a magnifying glass, in Lisbon, Portugal, on Feb. 19, 2014. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software developers. Shutterstock.com/Gil C
Eva Fu
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The Chinese regime has asked the world’s leading software development platform to remove content relating to a spiritual practice that is persecuted in China, in its latest attempt to pressure Western companies to enforce its censorship standards.

GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, published a letter on Sept. 5 from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the agency that oversees police and security forces within the country, asking it to take down information relating to the spiritual discipline Falun Gong because it allegedly breached China’s “laws and regulations.”
Eva Fu
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Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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