... they bemoaned the uselessness of Tor and VPNs when 97% of Chinese never browse a site outside China. Their answer to my Q: "Nothing."
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... censorship happens at internet services in China (the true problem) and Tor or a VPN changes little.
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You’re asking a question that assumes a WEIRD worldview.
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I know it's a weird question. I might have phrased it differently as "I'm a technologist. How can I help?"
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as a Chinese I should clarify: No tech changes regulations; only pressure from people can achieve that.
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also: tech can be replicated, all government has to do is to create local competitors and makes foreign ones slow.
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did you really phrase the question this way? this comes off as extremely naive of how Chinese culture works
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Better to understand Chinese worldview. Why do they like censorship? How do they talk secretly? What goes wrong?
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Ok, please tell some more?
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I don’t know the answers, but I know there are reasons for these things, that we WEIRDs don’t know
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make it harder to censor, so the side effects grow larger on common used sites that regular folks stand against it.
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