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It is very well known that China blocks access to sites containing that term, there has been overwhelming evidence for many years. What reason could there conc
by layer8 2y ago
It is very well known that China blocks access to sites containing that term, there has been overwhelming evidence for many years.
What reason could there conceivably be for including that term into a meta tag of a thematically unrelated website, other than to trigger the well-known blocking of access from China?
- gopher_space 2y agoThe fact that you can eliminate an entire country from the conversation due to their politics, just by including a place name on a website, is *hilarious*. This is something that would be amusing to just do, no matter the target. To be clear, if you could remove someone's internet connection by emailing them a picture of Winnie the Pooh, that's all every junior would be doing with their free time. It's too stupid of a situation to leave alone. I'm not about to be burdened by the ramifications of other people living under that much control. Part of being inside a shitty system is that it's going to suck for you.
- throwaway290 2y agoPeople were inserting "Ukraine" or "BLM" or whatever on tons of thematically unrelated sites Some would say not doing something to combat a problem is supporting a problem. Maybe some people think that state-induced amnesia is a problem. "nothing interesting happened in 1989" > well-known blocking of access from China it is not well known even for me who been to China a few times that China defeated HTTPS required to read the text of a website to determine whether it contains forbidden terms. I only knew that their censors maintained a blocklist