Sure, but the Chinese government has far more sophisticated ways of taking down sites so their own citizens can't access them, and they're not afraid to use them - even against big name sites. And in fact they often do, to help local companies providing the same offerings to prosper.
The current DDoS attack just strikes me as too crude a method when they have so many other options available.
If you were going to argue that it's just a retaliation towards GitHub for hosting these projects, then once again there are others sites the government is far more concerned about and they could use DDoS to bring them down with far less publicity than what the GitHub DDoS is generating.
It just doesn't seem to make sense from either the method being used or the motivation behind the attacks.
The current DDoS attack just strikes me as too crude a method when they have so many other options available.
If you were going to argue that it's just a retaliation towards GitHub for hosting these projects, then once again there are others sites the government is far more concerned about and they could use DDoS to bring them down with far less publicity than what the GitHub DDoS is generating.
It just doesn't seem to make sense from either the method being used or the motivation behind the attacks.