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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by QAPereo on Saturday July 29, 2017 @08:35AM (#14880901)
there isn't going to be a technical solution to the problem of terrible world governments, the only real solution is going to be to change the governments.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by jmiserez on Saturday July 29, 2017 @09:01AM (#14880997)
In democratic countries, at least you have that possibility. Elsewhere it might not be possible at all. Nationwide censorship and surveillance are probably pretty effective technical “solutions” for preventing change.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by jMyles on Saturday July 29, 2017 @01:59PM (#14882291)
Why are they different things? Isn't, on some very fundamental level, the act of changing the governments a "technical solution"?
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