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There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access: China, Lydia, Egypt, Myanmar, Russia, maybe a few others. All authoritarian regimes to some
by jiofih 6y ago
There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access: China, Lydia, Egypt, Myanmar, Russia, maybe a few others. All authoritarian regimes to some extent.
> China did not ban US companies
Blocking domains via a countrywide firewall is as close as you get to “banning”. If it was about following laws you’d enforce that through legal means like everyone else, and not brute force.
- lihan 6y agoI’m here more refer to the internet censorship. Eg, they do exist in Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...), Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan) etc..
- dannyw 6y agoAustralian internet censorship requires court orders at least.
- oasisbob 6y ago> There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access I agree with the thrust of your general argument, but feel it necessary to point out that the list of countries with substantial and automatic filtering mechanisms is much larger than that. Eg, I've experienced censorship in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. Legal means can still involve brute force; for example, when a court somewhere decides that a certain type of content is abhorrent and should be put on an automatic DNS blacklist that ISPs are required to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surv...