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While you were there, did you get a feel for whether people there would pay for a semi-reliable bridge through the firewall?
by 13of40 10y ago
While 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.