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at this point, how is this different than the great Chinese firewall, that had so much righteous shit spewed over it?
by twelve40 4y ago
at this point, how is this different than the great Chinese firewall, that had so much righteous shit spewed over it?
- twelve40 4y agoP.S. my advisor in grad school had a whole project to help Chinese people to get around the nasty firewall. Looks like he can revive that project for the UK now! except this time the NSF is probably not going to fund it, my guess.
- sys_64738 4y agoThis type of mechanism only works so far until it is blocked. It doesn’t solve the censorship problem that the China Communists inflict on the population.
- nopenopenopeno 4y ago>China Communists This is like calling Hitler a socialist because of his party's name.
- slackfan 4y agoJust because he did abhorrent things does not make him not a socialist
- pessimizer 4y agoI guess that if you self-identify as a thing, you are that thing.
- vidarh 4y agoThe fact that none of his policies were socialist, however, made him not a socialist. Not only was he not a socialist, and opposed the name change from DAP to NSDAP but didn't yet have the power to prevent it, but he so detested the "left" of NSDAP, which wanted to merge some left wing economic policies with far-right social views, that as his control over the party tightened he got them progressively expelled, until he was finally able to have the rest arrested and/or murdered during the Night of the Long Knives. That's how much he hated any hint of lifting socialist ideas. More importantly, nobody contemporary to were in any way confused about their position. It was right wingers like Von Papen and Hindenburg who let him form a government. It was only the right wing parties who voted with NSDAP. It was only the right wing press, both in Germany and abroad, who expressed support for him. This attempt at trying to conflate NSDAP with socialism first started after the war.
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- nopenopenopeno 4y agoThe fact that there was nothing about him that was in any way socialist makes him not a socialist.
- slackfan 4y agoTouche, he killed a lot less people than actual socialists, and was much less efficient about his genocides.
- twelve40 4y agoit's great to see an article about Chinese-style censorship *in the UK* and the comments are still banging on about the evil CCP commies :facepalm:
- trasz2 4y agoBeing able to get around doesn't matter - what matters is whether it's inconvenient enough to make the propaganda business unprofitable.
- themitigating 4y agoBecause that applies to almost everyone?
- twelve40 4y agothese restrictions if you haven't read from TFA apply to everyone as well. As much as they have competence to implement that.
- daneel_w 4y agoThe immediate difference is that everyone is affected by the Great Firewall, not just "designated persons". How it turns out in practical use surely remains to be seen.
- nippoo 4y agoThe title is misleading - this requires all ISPs in the UK to ban anyone from visiting rt.com, not just "designated persons". And indeed it works - I'm in the UK and trying to visit that website times out on mobile or cable broadband.
- ectopod 4y agoEE has just removed the DNS entry from their server. 1.1.1.1 still works.
- twelve40 4y agono, that is not a difference that exists.
- thedrbrian 4y agoit's ok when we do it