China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by nullnullnullnil on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:57AM (#11759250)

I just got back from a few months in China. These services are definitely blocked through DPI. It's frustrating. It's also interesting what happens to your mind when you can't read what you'd like to, talk about what you'd like to, and revert the accepted status quo for everything.

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by 13of40 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:32AM (#11759366)

While you were there, did you get a feel for whether people there would pay for a semi-reliable bridge through the firewall?

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by nbevans on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:25AM (#11759778)

"Will they pay for freedom"? Seriously?

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by GantzGraf on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:06AM (#11760481)

I thought it was a good question.

"Do people in China in general care enough about censorship to pay for access to uncensored internet?" doesn't have an explicitly obvious answer, does it?

They could be happy with their internet as is. They could be unhappy and willing to pay. They could be unhappy but unwilling/unable to pay.

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by 13of40 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:52AM (#11761471)

I think there's a parallel here with how the FCC tries to censor certain words and images, but you can pay a premium to get them via non-public, historically illegal [1], means.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1468

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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by wepple on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:23PM (#11762849)

westerners do; locals not so much.

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