Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023 #303
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自2023年11月2日起，中国开发者在GitHub上删除或存档翻墙工具 自2023年11月2日星期四（北京时间）以来，由中国开发者维护的大量翻墙工具要么被删除，要么被存档。这些工具曾被来自中国及其他审查严重地区的数百万用户用于绕过审查。 如下表所总结，这一系列事件始于开发者@Fndroid在2023年11月2日删除了其在Github上拥有数千星标和分支的热门工具Clash For Windows的仓库。紧接着在2023年11月3日，更多由中国开发者开发的流行翻墙工具被彻底删除、存档或删除了其分支上的所有提交。 我们鼓励反审查社区一起讨论这些正在发生的事件，探索缓解策略，并思考长期影响。
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该表格最后更新于 2023 年 11 月 5 日。万分感谢 @travislee8964、@clashcross、@MuaPyapSrii、@al0rid4l、@showgood163、@mega-optimus、@markpash、@wgll000 的报告和更新。 |
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ClashCross: has been changed to archive status,Because Clash deleted the repository. |
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https://github.com/juewuy/ShellCrash |
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Wow |
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Below is the response from the author of TUIC (in Chinese) https://www.eaimty.com/2023/opensource-project-based-on-hormone |
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据说 第一个是暴露身份了，但后面的作者也跟着纷纷删库是什么考虑呢，也不可能这么多作者同时暴露啊 It is said that the first one is a case of exposed identity, and the other authors have followed in deleting libraries, it's not that so many authors were exposed at the same time. |
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是否应该有境外基金会管理同一系列的项目，防止全军覆没？ Should there be an offshore foundation to manage the same series of projects to prevent a total loss? |
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EAimTY said he is sadden by the community, and scared by exposure in Weibo. There's some misunderstanding here: Hope he stays safe. |
问题是 Clash 这个名字成为了热点，这就有足够的理由避风头。一个东西是否存在和是否有大量“无关人员”知道是十分不同的。 The problem is that the name Clash has become a hot topic, which is reason enough to stay out of the limelight. Whether or not something exists is very different from whether or not a large number of "uninvolved people" know about it. |
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我也是看到了这个现象，所以今天花了点时间写了一个简单的 HTTPS 代理，希望能有点用 https://github.com/hired-varied/stupid-proxy I read this news today, so I spend sometime today to implement a simple HTTPS proxy. I hope it will be useful. |
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https://github.com/AntiNeko/CatBoxForAndroid - Final release and archived |
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Clash was the most capable and the best client among all. I believe it would take a significant amount of time to implement something similar. So, I think we should hope for its developer to return, or at the very least, someone should consider taking responsibility for the current Clash core project. However, this is unlikely since there isn't any source code available for forking. |
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汇总一下跑路的仓库，有新增请在评论指出
此列表更新地址 个人对跑路的看法 |
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In my point of view, most of those archived and branch-changing projects will be ducked for a while and recover when the heat of this period is over. So don't worry too much. |
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Perhaps we should think more about the developers and community, especially under the background issue of developer safety. Maybe we should gather some reliable advices on strategies for anonymity and popularization. |
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Thank you so much for your reports and updates @travislee8964 @clashcross @MuaPyapSrii @al0rid4l @showgood163 @mega-optimus @markpash @wgll000. We have updated the table accordingly now. |
There is a lack of TRUE open-source spirit and open-source ecosystem in Chinese community. |
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Do not help projects developed by Chinese developers, the rights to these projects are often concentrated in the hands of one person who can remove the source code without the consent of the other developers. |
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大的要来了 The big one is coming. |
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It may be safer for contributors in mainland China to give project ownership to partners overseas. |
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mark |
You're too extreme, bro. Projects like v2ray and clash-meta are more community orientated than you think. What we need to do now is to making suggestions about how to solve their identity risks, not blame or complain about problems. |
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did anyone save clash-premium source code too ? i need rule based routing, is it part of https://github.com/cyrus-liu/clash_clone ? |
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I don’t think the premium core is open source. BTW the meta kernel supports many premium kernel’s exclusive features. |
yes it will work! |
I think this is a pretty good suggestion. In fact, it doesn't even need to be a traditional "foundation", as open source developers mostly don't expect to make any profit from these projects. They themselves need the project to go through the censorship, and they share these programs for no other reason but for more people to get benefit from them. They are the Prometheans of this age who steal fire for mankind. In my opinion, if some larger open source foundations like Apache would be interested in hosting these projects, thus to protect them, it would be great. |
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There is another one，https://github.com/dotnetcore/FastGithub ， FastGithub is also famous and the repo was deleted last week |
The source tree in https://github.com/MetaCubeX/ClashX.Meta, the macOS frontend, seems to have been rolled back to an old version, although the most recent snapshot is still accessible if you open one of the releases. |
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So what really happened? |
我赞同这篇文章的绝大部分内容（感同身受），包括：
建议修改一下你的用词 @wgll000 I agree (and empathize) with the great majority of this article, including:
May I suggest a change in your wording @wgll000? |
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It's another piece of evidence that proves the mess in the east is strongly supported by capitalism in the west. |
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Add luci-app-xray to the list. It was deleted also on November 3rd. 4 days ago the code was pushed to the repo again, but without git history ("initial commit"), and still not clear if it is an authentic code of version 3.1.1 or not. |
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Github has been sold for a long time! Removes code on demand! It's time to stop using this garbage dump! |
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This doesn't look like the removal was done by GitHub. Much more it looks like that developers were somehow forced and deleted their repos by themselves. |
Some are forced to but some are removed by themselves. |
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The homebridger repo has returned. |
Reference: https://www.lawyerhjh.com/research/fanqiang-illegal.html |
That law is known as pretty vague in its interpretation. https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv20691224 's viewpoint is that that law only prohibits making your own satellites, international networking cables etc. However, the current Chinese administration is known for making judgements based on ethics instead of law rigor. |
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@aaronliu0130 I know the law is a bit weird and even not make sense as some lawyers explain. But who cares? In China, lawyer's certificate can be easily cancelled by the police. Which lawyer dares to challenge the government or police? Their comments somewhat make sense, but the Court or the Police don't follow this kind of logic at all. Usually, the crime is pre-defined even you are innocent. |
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Yeah, like I said:
Ethics being their ethics, of course. |
Yeah, basically they can do whatever they want. You would want to refer to cases like the programthink. |
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China is a fascist state. |
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Well, there are still quite a bit of elements missing from it to achieve fascism, fortunately:
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blablabla |
No, little lover of the fascist system. Modern fascism is what we see in China, North Korea, Russia, Belarus. And your judgments about fascism are 80 years out of date, if not more. |
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The entire world has steered away from fascism; I think what you want to say is that China is among the most close to fascism, which I agree. I don't think that's enough at all to call me a lover of fascism or say that my thoughts of fascism were out of date... nowhere did I say I admire it 😅, and fascism is inherently a dated and deprecated ideology stemming from the most ancient evil of uniting through racism. |
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Good news: Clash.Meta seems to be back as another name Mihomo |
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Does anybody know about this user? |
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They look like your average Chinese enthusiast.
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Cheers,
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What happened to "Clash for Windows"? Is there a trusted repository for it? |
His author posted a picture on IG, a trip with a profile of his half vehicle and a shortened version of the name of the province and municipality where he is registered, for some reason I couldn't access the internet and the picture was still not deleted when I had access to the internet four days later, his author didn't disclose any news about the police and is still updating his gaming routine, I wish him the best of luck |
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Wtf? |
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中文版：自2023年11月2日起，中国开发者在GitHub上删除或存档翻墙工具
A significant number of censorship circumvention tools maintained by Chinese developers have been either deleted or archived since Thursday, November 2, 2023 (Beijing Time). These tools have been used by millions of users in China and other heavily censored regions on a daily basis.
As summarized in the table below, this chain of incidents started with the developer @Fndroid deleted the repo Clash For Windows -- a highly popular tool with thousands of stars and forks on Github -- on Thursday, November 2, 2023 (Beijing Time). This incident was followed by further upheaval on November 3, 2023, as a series of other popular censorship circumvention tools developed by Chinese developers, were either completely deleted, archived, or stripped of all commits across their branches.
We encourage the anti-censorship community to come together for an open dialogue on these emerging incidents, to explore mitigation strategies, and to consider the long-term implications. This collective effort is crucial for developing a resilient response to these incidents.
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The table was last updated on November 5, 2023, thanks to the reports and updates from @travislee8964 @clashcross @MuaPyapSrii @al0rid4l @showgood163 @mega-optimus @markpash @wgll000 .
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