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It is more than a social process. One day I'll translate this article into English: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E5%B9%B4%E5%B8%9D%E5%90%A7%E5%87%BA%E5%B
by theseadroid 7y ago
It is more than a social process.
One day I'll translate this article into English: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E5%B9%B4%E5%B8%9D%E5%90%A7%E5%87%BA%E5%BE%81%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E5%B9%B4%E5%B8%9D%E5%90%A...
The gist of it is in 2016 January, many mainland Chinese VPNed onto Facebook to post curses on Taiwan politicians who support Taiwan independence.
It's not a big event but it's funny they VPNed out to do that. Also from my personal experience many oversea Chinese students, and first generation immigrants, many of whom tech workers, among which many of them working for FANNG, dont consider censorship a big deal.
- throwaway_9cc8 7y agoA couple thoughts - assuming you are American: 1) The Facebook campaign is: a) cowardly on the government's part - why don't they just open up the GFW for a month and see what happens? b) somewhat expected even if done by real people out of their own initiative - what do you expect if Long Island decided to go independent? Obviously not equivalent but hopefully you get the idea. c) Censorship is a big deal to some or most of my best friends - but if it is, would they trust you enough to talk about it, especially given that it is a big deal, they still have family and friends at home, and the government has gone to some length to strengthen it? To be clear I appreciate your comment and yes, that article is an interesting historical event that is worthy of an article on Wikipedia.
- theseadroid 7y agoAm Chinese. See my profile and past comments. Shot me an email if you like. Let’s chat more :)