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How about Chinese censorship? That's the real challenge.
by colordrops 4y ago
How about Chinese censorship? That's the real challenge.
- drewcoo 4y agoA bigger challenge is our own because we are largely oblivious to it.
- AzzieElbab 4y agoOn the bright side 3 years ago I would have laughed out loud if someone told me to check out an obscure Jewish magazine, a falun-gong associated newspaper, and a Christian jokes site. Strange times
- pessimizer 4y agoThere are three OTA Falun Gong TV channels in Chicago, but Chinese state (or designated affiliated) media was banned from Google News.
- ChadNauseam 4y agocan you elaborate on that? as far as I know, my government (the USA’s) does little to limit my access to information beyond copyright issues. There is of course censorship on social networks, which is no doubt real, but it’s a much trickier problem to solve.
- pessimizer 4y agoThere is censorship on every network, not just social ones, and it's naive to think that's not connected to government policy. What I'm not aware of are any DNS level blocks (even at individual ISPs), but I'm afraid someone will correct me.
- kruuuder 4y agoBeating any state censorship is a success and we should appreciate that.
- nirui 4y agoTor does not work in China. I was once tried to setup my own Tor Bridge on a VPS, the VPS ended up got blocked after just few days of use (actual time of use is more like 30 minutes). If Putin really wants to, he can just buy the tech from China, and Xi is more than happy to sell since it gives him a grip on Russia. Tor is not an anti-censorship tool all by itself, it's just a privacy protection tool. An anti-censorship program will have features that obscures it's traffic pattern, not 512-bytes fix-sized frames (cells). Also I want to point out that, even through the firewall might allow the traffic through, it does not mean that the user is undetected. As the firewall might record the behavior and notify law enforcement to manually investigate the usage.
- jacooper 4y agoI think they are already do, using meek-azure bridges.
- dopa42365 4y agoMy Weibo feed is full of Chinese people reposting Instagram content (blocked in China) that's posted by Russians (where Instagram is banned as well). People in both countries just use a random free or dirt cheap VPN. The feasibility of a "big firewall" is kinda low if you're not willing to go full North Korea.