So, what’s up with the Great Firewall? What I’ve been told:

  • Google is blocked
  • Whatever VPN is blocked
  • @CriticalResist8A
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    103 years ago

    People are defending the firewall on Lemmygrad, the original instance and a communist one.

    China is not obligated to let Facebook or Twitter operate in their country. And when you see how these companies operate honestly they made the right call. There was a time around 15 years ago when nobody knew what Facebook was and we lived just fine. I don’t really see how Facebook connects me to the world (especially as China offers their own solution) when all I see there are boomers, anti vaxxers, click bait videos, and an algorithm designed to make me spend more and more time there.

    It’s still a totalitarian regime that’s done some real fucked up things.

    Don’t worry, they still have a long ways to go before they reach the level of the US.