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I just got back from a few months in China. These services are definitely blocked through DPI. It's frustrating. It's also interesting what happens to your mind
by nullnullnullnil 10y ago
I just got back from a few months in China. These services are definitely blocked through DPI. It's frustrating. It's also interesting what happens to your mind when you can't read what you'd like to, talk about what you'd like to, and revert the accepted status quo for everything.
- 13of40 10y agoWhile you were there, did you get a feel for whether people there would pay for a semi-reliable bridge through the firewall?
- nbevans 10y ago"Will they pay for freedom"? Seriously?
- GantzGraf 10y agoI thought it was a good question. "Do people in China in general care enough about censorship to pay for access to uncensored internet?" doesn't have an explicitly obvious answer, does it? They could be happy with their internet as is. They could be unhappy and willing to pay. They could be unhappy but unwilling/unable to pay.
- 13of40 10y agoI think there's a parallel here with how the FCC tries to censor certain words and images, but you can pay a premium to get them via non-public, historically illegal [1], means. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1468 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1468
- wepple 10y agowesterners do; locals not so much.