Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:00AM from the badge-of-honor dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Many Reddit users in China who tried to access the social network this weekend were slightly annoyed to find the company's site and app weren't working. But in China, it's second nature for internet users to turn on their VPNs, and in almost no time at all, they were surfing the "front page of the internet" again. According to users' posts, the crackdown appeared to have started on Friday (Aug. 10). By today (Aug. 13), more people said they were able to access Reddit again. Many, however, report that Reddit remains behind the Great Firewall for them. Comparitech, a tool that checks if a domain is blocked in China, continues to show that reddit.com is not accessible via regular internet access, but reachable over VPN. It's unclear if geography is a factor for why some people are and aren't able to access the site.

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Now that they know by bobstreo · 2018-08-13 01:43 · Score: 3, Interesting

the Streisand effect will probably kick in, and it will become more popular in China.
Reddit as a whole has a lot of resources, and smart (often helpful) people, covering pretty much every subject you can think of (that hasn't been banned)
Reddit management and moderators of a lot of the main subreddits seem to have been engaging in censorship of ideologies and information they don't approve of. Much like China.