• caboose2006@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Stop with the pedantic BS. MOST do not use VPNs to get around censorship because MOST do not have a VPN. So again, why do the Chinese need a VPN to access the wider internet?

    And there’s more to the internet to social media.

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      19 hours ago

      i literally didn’t say MOST people used it. just that it is common. and it is, i’m not the one being pedantic here.

      why do the Chinese need a VPN to access the wider internet?

      Again, why would they need to access the western* internet?

      I said this to someone else in this thread, but encouraging access to fascist propaganda can’t be equated to freedom.

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        19 hours ago

        Not all internet outside of China is Western. I’ll give you an example. My wife was a cross cultural communications teacher in China. She had her students pick countries outside of Asia to do a cultural report on. One student picked Poland for whatever reason. The Chinese internet, other than here is Poland on a map, it has this many people, and it’s capital is Warsaw, had no other information, Literally nothing else.

        So when you ask why they would need access it’s because they deserve to be informed about the world around them. There is waayyyyyyy more to the internet than “fascist propaganda”.

        They also can’t access the absolutely braindead remarks you’re saying right now. Isn’t that a travesty?

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          18 hours ago

          I quick and dirty looked poland up on baidu and got hits in mandarin about its history, culture and more. i also found lots of pictures, news articles, and silly clickbaity videos about it. i could probably find english results on chinese google.

          There is waayyyyyyy more to the internet than “fascist propaganda”.

          now you are just being silly. when did i claim the entirety of the internet is fascism? all you have been doing is strawmanning with things i didn’t say or mean for the last couple of posts.

          because you disagree a lot of people use vpns in china? it sounds like you are angry so i will just wish you a nice day and go talk to someone else.

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            17 hours ago

            And you searched this inside China did you? What are you not getting? Even Chinese search engines inside China show different information then Chinese search engines outside china. It’s a walled garden. You are out of your depth here. Go to bed.