I'm talking to my very neoliberal friend and I'm basically praising China and saying I'd want to move there and she's all "But they censor all the internet!" and I'm honestly at a loss because I don't know enough about their internet situation to have any strong arguments. Is the internet heavily censored in China? Is using VPN not allowed? What's up with their whole internet vibe?

  • I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    You have to ground it in western social media being used to organize many severe terrorist attacks within China and western companies refusing to follow Chinese laws. In additon you have the semi-disclosed Western cyberwarfare program to not just launch hacks and DDOS attacks and the like but use jump servers in foreign nations to disguise them as coming from abroad, from our enemies.