When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet

Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by bjourne on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:08PM (#20234258)

I wonder how often Western people browse for information that is considered taboo in their countries. My guess is not very often.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:15PM (#20234322)

How taboo?

Basically everyone watches porn which is mildly taboo.

I'm sure there's some people that listen to far right podcasts (which is taboo local to this crowd) but they won't tell obviously.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by bjourne on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:46PM (#20235314)

How to funnel money to terrorist groups. Or maybe browsing Hamas' official sites. Would you dare it?

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:07PM (#20235534)

I know a couple people who are big into geopolitics and they literally read "terrorist" news sites. They read a fuckton of news in general. I'm sure they're on lists.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by darkpuma on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:28PM (#20235758)

I've got some Hezbollah propaganda mp3's laying around here somewhere. Does that count?

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by anpago on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:33PM (#20234528)

Brits may wish to learn of information which might be blocked by a D Notice or super injunction they wish to know often only out of curiosity. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/31/d-notice-syste...

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by dTal on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:30PM (#20235145)

I don't think the analogy works. "Taboo", in the social sense, is very different than "prohibited by government fiat".

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by bjourne on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:42PM (#20235268)

What the article elaborates on is different types of prohibition. Sites blocked by the Great Firewall of China are, generally, not prohibited to visit. Otherwise this study conducted in China would have been illegal.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by throwaway_9cc8 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:32PM (#20234520)

I would not say foreign news/YouTube/Wikipedia are "taboo" in China because that implies a social norm. Avoided in conversations they might be, these are regarded as tools that are useful and potentially more trustworthy at least among some college students.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by simonh on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:25PM (#20234426)

So the equivalent of Wikipedia for a Chinese person is what, for a Westerner? Snuff movies?

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by CandidoRondon on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:00PM (#20235457)

Perhaps something like Daily Stormer or Unz.com i.e. racist, anti-feminist, or Holocaust denial material.

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Re:When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet by darkpuma on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:15PM (#20235625)

If HN is the standard by which to judge the west, then such sites seem to get a fair shake at things. That's a taboo website but not taboo enough to silence discussion about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unz.com&sort=byPopularity

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