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You seem to overestimate the effectiveness of national firewalls. Sure, they'll squash you like a bug if you start saying the wrong things publicly, but China h
by elefanten 5y ago
You seem to overestimate the effectiveness of national firewalls. Sure, they'll squash you like a bug if you start saying the wrong things publicly, but China hasn't exactly succeeded with keeping ideas and information out of the country.
These aspiring totalitarian systems are quite porous.
- pphysch 5y agoVirtually every country suffers from online disinformation crises. China is one of a handful that has it mostly under wraps. The GFW has been enormously successful in this regard. Societies with high amounts of internal distrust will not be able to compete in this century. They will fall apart. That is why the US is taking it so seriously and cracking down on disinformation (see Google this week). The GFW must have been visionary if Western governments are now playing catch-up.