Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com)

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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Re:Enjoying too much freedom again?

[Oswald McWeany]

Tibet? Taiwan? A cartoon about a talking bear?... ...Enjoying that internet sovereignty on social media?

The scary thing is; they have more population that the US and Western Europe combined- their economy is growing rapidly. Their political system whereas as not very citizen-friendly, allows them to maneuver in ways democracies can not. They have many advantages that countries that care about their citizens do not.

100 years from now, China is the most powerful nation on earth... as the dominant nation on earth- how much of their culture, government, censorship and way of life will rub off on the rest of the world. America, for all it's evils, being a democracy and the major world power for the last 100 years has helped spread democracy to countries that want to emulate them or aspire to be them. It has had many positive influences on the world. (yeah, we know the bad things it has done too).

100 years from now, when China has had a number of decades as the most influential country... how will the world look. Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations. Survival of the fittest, will governments have to suppress the common man more in order to advance their nations and compete?