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> there are more websites accessible from Hong Kong than from the EU. After a quick search, I couldn't find a source that claims that any website is blocked in
by r3bl 8y ago
> there are more websites accessible from Hong Kong than from the EU.
After a quick search, I couldn't find a source that claims that any website is blocked in Hong Kong, and several that claim that no website is blocked.
The Internet connection is monitored, there's pressure and self-censorship, but there's no blocked access to websites. It's easy to be bigger than zero.
EDIT: The biggest collection of the websites I could find lists 1129 that are still blocking access to EU citizens, and 252 that stopped (presumably, once they've become GDPR compliant): https://data.verifiedjoseph.com/dataset/websites-not-available-eu-gdpr https://data.verifiedjoseph.com/dataset/websites-not-availab...
- sk0g 8y agoI know for a fact the great firewall does not extend to Hong Kong. We can deploy APIs there AND use HTTPS/ communicate with the outside world/ use Google services. How insane.
- Renaud 8y ago>The Internet connection is monitored[...] While I agree that there is pressure from pro-Chinese Government henchmen to intimidate free press in HK, I am curious as to where you get this assertion that the internet is monitored. That would imply some kind of government surveillance. I have never heard of any systematic internet monitoring in HK of the kind done in other countries, like mainland China.
- kmlx 8y agothere's no censorship, direct or indirect, in HK. that is why there is less of the Internet in the EU than in HK.