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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by marme on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:12PM (#16971699)
china did this and it just caused every major service to be recreated for chinese users on their side of the internet
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by tonyztan on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:27PM (#16971843)
China is huge compared to those other oppressive regimes out there.

Also, AFAIK, China hasn't been able to recreate GitHub. Since GitHub is HTTPS-only and China needs it enough to not block it, a lot of censorship circumvention tools are available in China through GitHub.

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