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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.
Reddit is full of pictures of big white dicks and big black dicks. Probably makes all their women feel horny for western cock and their men feel inadequate.
They need to put seventeen people in front of the firing squad to demonstrate that the rules must be followed. Otherwise, they are toothless.
for China.
Tibet?
Taiwan?
A cartoon about a talking bear?
Tiananmen square?
Bureaucratic profiteering?
June 4?
Enjoying that internet sovereignty on social media?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Can't say much was lost. The leftism over there is suffocating.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
"I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture, and cat memes." -- Dalai Lama
Possibly not quite word for word.
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Winnie the Pooh? Xi Jinping's erectile problems? Ooops. Now slashdot's out too!
Any criticism of any major religion like Islam or Christianity, but particularly Islam, gets you an instant ban. It's a cesspit of safe space mentality
Don't be MERELY evil!
...here. Reddit is a sewer.
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.
Have you been on reddit lately?
It's probably doing the people of China a favor, letting them become better human beings than to wade through that internet-swill. It makes Fark look sober by comparison.
-Styopa
China is a totalitarian communist dictatorship.
The surprise is that you can ever reach websites the head honchos don't like; not that you can't here or there or now and then.
Now where are Chinese users going to go to circle jerk about how bad the USA and anyone right of the political center are?
Tor + ObfsProxy = bye bye censorship.
There was an AMA with a low-level party member a couple of days ago, and lots of people were very worried that he was going to get in trouble for it. He was pointedly ignoring any questions that were outright dangerous (e.g. Tiananmen Square), but some of his answers were... not the party line. Wouldn't surprise me if he got rumbled (he wasn't very cautious about anonymity) and censured and this block is part of their mitigation strategy.
There can be huge difference in accessibility to same site depending on city, county province and also what day
But where do the Chinese get their conspiracy theories now?
I thought China had outlawed VPNs there.
I do know that in the middle east at VPN can get you some jail time and a big fine. They do that not so much for politics but that it protects the royalty-owned phone carrier's profits. $15/minute is worth protecting.
I have only been to China once but then as ever I wouldn't make light of flouting their laws.
Can they please block it here (US) as well!? Pretty please?
Fuck off!
no wonder they block it, and good riddance, it's a fucking McCarthyist echo chamber full of pro-American shills and people there to negatively affect your opinion and idea of China, Russia, or whoever else is on the current agenda.
China's GDP is already greater than that of the USA in purchasing parity terms, which is what counts if you want to purchase air craft carriers. It will soon overtake the USA in absolute terms. Xi Jinping is has said that he wants to build up their military and their influence. And what Emperor Xi says is what happens.
VPNs are illegal in China. You will not go to jail at the moment, but you will loose a lot of social credit points if they government catches you with an illegal one. Would you really risk that just to read Redit?
Under Xi, China has become much more oppressive over the last couple of years. The screws are tightening, and soon I think illegal VPNs will become dangerous to run, and so become very rare.
The speed of change is truly amazing. When I was a kid, some 30,000,000 Chinese had starved under Mou's Great Leap Forward. Then the Cultural revolution. Then the huge opening up under Deng Xiaoping. And the hope and expectation of a move to democracy. And now the crack down by Xi, And all this time the unimaginable economic growth.
In the west, we live roughly the same as our parents did, excluding computers. In China it is unimaginably different.
I think modern site should just ban China. The should not be allowed to participate in global society until they start to respect human rights.
was lost.
Assuming that slashdot (and dropbox) are not also blocked in China, I suggest to anyone affected by this to send a plain text message to gettor@torproject.org with subject containing absolutely nothing and body containing:
windows
And then use the Tor Browser to go to ultrasurf.us to download the Ultrasurf program (which is currently on version 18.04). That program will unblock pretty much any site including reddit (and it's free, with no ads). Unfortunately, there's only a windows version, but maybe you can use WINE to run it on osx or linux.
(Did you think they were able to read this?)