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You tried to prove these are not independent moves by providing a few incidents out of a 1.4 billion country over a span of several years. One comment in the f
by isaacfung 3y ago
You tried to prove these are not independent moves by providing a few incidents out of a 1.4 billion country over a span of several years.
One comment in the first article you linked said 99% of software engineers in china use github.
The CCP is 100% aware that people use vpn to access foreign websites.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> CCP is 100% aware that people use vpn to access foreign websites And Washington is 100% aware that people do crack. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a systematic law enforcement effort to stamp it out. Just because Beijing isn’t squishing every last developer doesn’t mean China hasn’t fundamentally changed since Xi became dictator.
- isaacfung 3y agoIf they really want to catch these people, you wont be seeing only a few examples over half a decade. As mentioned in the article, even Hu Xijin (the former editor-in-chief and party secretary of the conservative popular media Global Times) has a youtube channel. Most top universities like tsinghua, SJTU and tech companies like alibaba have official github accounts. There is no way to implement complete censorship without killing your own tech industry.