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Can anyone from China list what U.S. news apps are available? I would love to know who sold out.

• hawkice 10y ago
  Honestly, English language material isn't a huge priority for censors in China most of the time. You'd have to be _extremely_ prominent and cover issues relevant to the CCP's interest before I'd assume "sold out" is more likely than "ignored by the censors". [It seems reasonable to note, here, that the same logic applies to coverage of the American government -- despite the lack of censors. Perhaps they leverage access to privileged information -- why leak something important to someone who dredges up garbage about you the other six days a week.]
• westiseast 10y ago
  It's not really that clear cut tbh. The blocked ones are well known (you can google it) but what you also have are things like: * throttling of all foreign internet at particular times * effective blocks on sites because they load dependencies from blocked sites. * Temporary local blocking (e.g. It's easier and reliable from my home internet to load reddit, but from a coffee shop 1km away it's noticeably less reliable) * interrupting of pageloads based on keywords. e.g. if you try download a page from a non-blocked domain that features keywords "free tibet" then the connection will get interrupted.