Chinese devs are storing 1000s of eBooks on GitHub and NPM

That’s why I favourited instead of liked

You can also store this stuff in pretty much any comment/free-text blob on the internet. Even in profile photos. It’s just less searchable.

I wonder if at some point, China will block https for regular users (but keep it for secure communications between gov agencies, banks, etc). So every residential area will only receive http, which the government can then censor by content, like blocking certain github pages while allowing others.

copyright is a western thing. Printing was invented in China, but commercially variable printing is a western thing (latin, English). Because of the Chinese writing system, you can never print a book cheaply. Books were spread verbally, some are handwritten copy were sold for the copying, not for authoring.

Thankfully we live in a free country where we can vote for the various government officials who determine which books must be removed from school libraries and which internet libraries must be blocked or shut down.