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The overwhelming number 1 priority of the Chinese Communist party is to remain in power and remain in control. Everything comes second place to that. Economical
by dageshi 9y ago
The overwhelming number 1 priority of the Chinese Communist party is to remain in power and remain in control. Everything comes second place to that. Economically it would make sense to do what you say, but to do so would be an unacceptable loss of control over the ability to monitor and curtail communication in China, so they won't do it.
Additionally, they do certainly have the ability to detect and shutdown VPN's based on traffic analysis, for the most part they don't do this most of the time but during specific sensitive political events they can and will.
- bsaul 9y ago"remain in control" is also what i thought, but then i changed my mind and now think the reason is now (almost) purely economical. The reason is that : - google maps is blocked, but apple maps isn't - google is blocked, but yahoo and bing aren't - youtube is blocked, but other video sites such as rutube.ru are accessible, and just searching sensitive keywords led me to things like that https://rutube.ru/video/49d364dd24dc25c5855aa9113c107567/?ref=search https://rutube.ru/video/49d364dd24dc25c5855aa9113c107567/?re... and the list goes on and on. Once again, it doesn't make any sense.
- dageshi 9y agoGoogle very publically and explicitly said they would not abide by China's rules regarding their services about a decade ago. I wouldn't be surprised if those other services have local chinese servers which are serving the requests from China and are effectively subject to chinese laws.