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> To talk to friends or family that are in China. I'm assuming you mean of not-Chinese origin, basically expats. Yes? Are there no other options? Are no non-C
by yumraj 7y ago
> To talk to friends or family that are in China.
I'm assuming you mean of not-Chinese origin, basically expats. Yes?
Are there no other options? Are no non-Chinese messengers allowed in China?
- idrios 7y agoYeah WhatsApp, Facebook, Reddit, Google Hangouts all banned in China. Pretty much anything not owned by a Chinese company, or anything that didn't go through all sorts of hoops to meet Chinese censorship criteria (and even then it's not a guarantee), is banned. Even github was banned until Chinese developers complained that it made their jobs impossible
- yumraj 7y agoSounds like a Sophie's choice - WeChat vs the alternate
- usaar333 7y agoI was aware basically every expat used a VPN/roaming cell service. Your home internet is unusable if you don't.
- seppin 7y agoVPN's are becoming increasingly difficult to use.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoNo, VPNs are slow and unreliable. Many expats go without. After paying yearly fees for a couple of VPNs that stopped working a couple of weeks after the fees were paid, I gave up also. You learn to live inside the Chinese internet. Video sharing sites in China have ripped most everything off of YouTube anyways, and there is less enforcement of copyrights.