China filters every byte of Internet traffic in and out of the country.

It seems naive to think they can’t accomplish the same thing for a GitHub mirror.

MWC is not deprecated or going away, but Material Design is no longer actively staffing its development.

I’m skeptical.

That’s the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.

You’re getting good advice here.

“Bricking” though normally means turning a software problem into a hardware problem. You just have a software problem, which is infinitely easier to fix.

Don’t fret.