If you are a communist state that exists side by side with capitalism you cant have complete freedom of press
This is one of the main things Lenin said
Its just communism trying to protect itself from degradation and overthrows, if you want to access the regular internet no one is going to arrest you
it’s going to be a thing as long as the ccp stays in power
The Firewall worked as intended. Why stop something that is working, just because a few foreigners or overseas students are inconvenienced?
You’re right on average they’re pro CCP, but try to remove control over information, give them access to different opinions on the past actions of the party, starting with Mao, give them access to infos about that famous square where nothing ever happened, and see what happens next. Do you think people are ok being taught in school about “thought of Mao” since they are young, and then read that all the world agrees on condemning his actions and ideas? Of course this would cause a call for responsibilities
Lol
The whole population is NoT “so pro ccp”.
Ever look at international program enrollments, and the % of Chinese students studying abroad before Xi dropped the hammer on int edu?
They love to living behind the Wall since 2.5k years ago.
This is the reason, I guessed.
For the thing that you said everyone now is pro CPC, it’s absolutely false. Just because of restriction on comments on social media, you barely see many of them that say something bad about CPC.
For the other thing that you have to restart your cell phone and reset your sim card in order to make VPN work, in China, I just turn it on and off whenever I wanna watch YouTube or whatever and had never been as bothered as you. Btw, even when I watch pornhub, it works with high quality and high speed.
I’m in Vietnam where the only websites blocked are BBC, Medium, and Gofundme… and even with all this access to knowledge , nobody knows about anything foreign. They don’t know about the Holocaust. They don’t know any US president besides the most recent ones . Current events matter so little to them…
Giving up Google / Twitch that isn’t laggy / YouTube / Gmail / attaching photos to emails / is something I can’t do again after having resided in China 2015-2017
America did it with twitter and Facebook. Every country censors their media one way or another. Anyways LetsVPN works well
eh? why can’t you just turn on the vpn?
So that china can operate more scams
Let me give a different look, and I’ll keep it brief. I am sure most of you here have traveled in the mainland right ? Now have you observed how most mainlanders, especially the people above 45-50 behave in public places, while queueing, in buffets, shopping etc?
Now imagine how it would have been if the current control measures were not in place? Do you get it now? So yeah. All this blocks and c&c methods are an necessary evil.
Mainland peers, post history tells me that’s bullshit. The number of these shit posts is increasing daily, yeh everyone is worried about the Chinese bots
you seem not to know what’s behind the firewall. (so theres the reason)
US built the firewall with China. the information barrier bar both ways. That’s Why you see X imitating WeChat. With this barrier naive westerners can blame everything on oppositing parties. even though most problems are exactly the same in totalitarian China. without the barrier the Internet will not be such a effective tool at shaping and controling public opinions. I mean in and outside of China.
Keep the barbarians out.
There’s money to be made selling VPNS to the few who bother.
Liberals say open up the internet. nd allow facebook? The same facebook liberals allege allowed russian bots to use to put trump in charge of the states?
You know who else discourages using open internet? Scientology and regions fundamentalist cults. So tell them they share that in common with cults and other high control groups and societies.
Preventing foreign coup attempts? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Well, not ever but this week, at least.
Foreign nations aren’t interested in coup attempts. Foreign governments can’t do anything in China without the Chinese people actually doing it themselves. If the CCP had half a brain, it would try to get real trust instead of forcing it on people.