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I wonder how often Western people browse for information that is considered taboo in their countries. My guess is not very often.
by bjourne 7y ago
I wonder how often Western people browse for information that is considered taboo in their countries. My guess is not very often.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoHow taboo? Basically everyone watches porn which is mildly taboo. I'm sure there's some people that listen to far right podcasts (which is taboo local to this crowd) but they won't tell obviously.
- bjourne 7y agoHow to funnel money to terrorist groups. Or maybe browsing Hamas' official sites. Would you dare it?
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoI know a couple people who are big into geopolitics and they literally read "terrorist" news sites. They read a fuckton of news in general. I'm sure they're on lists.
- darkpuma 7y agoI've got some Hezbollah propaganda mp3's laying around here somewhere. Does that count?
- simonh 7y agoSo the equivalent of Wikipedia for a Chinese person is what, for a Westerner? Snuff movies?
- CandidoRondon 7y agoPerhaps something like Daily Stormer or Unz.com i.e. racist, anti-feminist, or Holocaust denial material.
- darkpuma 7y agoIf HN is the standard by which to judge the west, then such sites seem to get a fair shake at things. That's a taboo website but not taboo enough to silence discussion about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unz.com&sort=byPopularity https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unz.com&sort=byPopularity
- throwaway_9cc8 7y agoI would not say foreign news/YouTube/Wikipedia are "taboo" in China because that implies a social norm. Avoided in conversations they might be, these are regarded as tools that are useful and potentially more trustworthy at least among some college students.
- anpago 7y agoBrits may wish to learn of information which might be blocked by a D Notice or super injunction they wish to know often only out of curiosity. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/31/d-notice-system-state-media-press-freedom https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/31/d-notice-syste...
- dTal 7y agoI don't think the analogy works. "Taboo", in the social sense, is very different than "prohibited by government fiat".
- bjourne 7y agoWhat the article elaborates on is different types of prohibition. Sites blocked by the Great Firewall of China are, generally, not prohibited to visit. Otherwise this study conducted in China would have been illegal.