The Impact of Censorship on Open Source Development: Evidence from Gitee

• In Event: Public Opinion and Political Attitude in China

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use data from Gitee, a Chinese code sharing platform similar to Github, to study the reaction of developers to a domestic censorship event on Gitee in 2022.

Authors

• Patrick J Chester, University of California-San Diego

• Margaret E. Roberts, University of California-San Diego

• Ruixue Jia, University of California-San Diego