Clash, a tool to break China's Great Fire Wall, is Deleted in GitHub

This is not uncommon. I know of many other repositories serving a similar purpose that disappears from GitHub. Author probably got caught (e.g. leaking their email in a git commit). Many Chinese people have QQ email addresses which are linked directly to their real identity.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ieooo&#x2F;clash">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ieooo&#x2F;clash</a>

wouldnt surprise me if github got a scary letter from the CCP and played it safe

being one of the developers of the Clash core (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dreamacro&#x2F;clash">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dreamacro&#x2F;clash</a>) and its closed-source (free of charge) premium version (clash-premium), i&#x27;m really heartbroken seeing this - everything is tearing down.<p>even without the context of being in China or Iran, Clash is still an awesome piece of software that can be used everywhere, with proper understanding of computer networking.<p>i ain&#x27;t sure if both Dreamacro and Fndroid are physically safe now, but i&#x27;m sure they are both physically in mainland China.<p>here&#x27;s one thread on github of this entire event: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;net4people&#x2F;bbs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;303">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;net4people&#x2F;bbs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;303</a>

This GUI for Clash by another author was also &quot;removed&quot; and archived (it seems the &quot;main&quot; branch is still there if you browse branches) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzzgydi&#x2F;clash-verge">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzzgydi&#x2F;clash-verge</a>

Is there any evidence that its foul play?<p>Could potentially be that the author got burnt out after all.

From what I can see, this tool also had it&#x27;s docs hosted on GitHub Pages, but I don&#x27;t seem to see any evidence of it existing in the repository.<p>Did the author force-push to delete the documentation too?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fossabot&#x2F;clash">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fossabot&#x2F;clash</a> ?

Ppl should maintain forks in other platforms, like bitbucket or even the eu repository launched few years ago

it can still be retrieved.....once on internet, archived (almost) forever.

I hope this was not due to MS kissing CCPs butt.