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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
Thank you, that means a lot! Alexa and SimilarWeb both agreed US is still by a large margin where the most traffic come from, with India being in the top five. Can't attest to the accuracy but at least it's data. Consider the fact
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
Good point - I certainly uses GitHub all the time and I should thank you for pointing out my bias. Most of the people probably won't care, but then again, aside from Google, most people here probably won't care about the censored
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
Good point - I shouldn't have said "don't care" about the criticisms - "don't mind" is a lot better. The Chinese government need more reasonable criticisms. As for "anti-Chinese" vs. pro somethin
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
Probably extremely frequently since the GFW blocks a huge number of random things including even GitHub once in a while.
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
A couple thoughts - assuming you are American: 1) The Facebook campaign is: a) cowardly on the government's part - why don't they just open up the GFW for a month and see what happens? b) somewhat expected even if done by re
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
EdX and MIT OCW are both based on YouTube - I think they have mirrors or at least unofficial uploads in China but it would be better to just use YouTube. Aside from that, there are a vast amount of video lectures uploaded by university prof
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
I would not say foreign news/YouTube/Wikipedia are "taboo" in China because that implies a social norm. Avoided in conversations they might be, these are regarded as tools that are useful and potentially more trustworthy
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by throwaway_9cc8 7y ago
Throwaway because my real account can be easily linked to my real name. Being a Chinese living in the US, thoughts: 1) Kudos for doing this experiment - one of the authors works at Peking University and I imagine there must have been at lea